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Dr Suks Minhas
London Andrology
What is azoospermia?
Dr Suks Minhas, a Consultant Urologist and Andrologist at London Andrology, explains azoospermia is the absence of sperm in the ejaculate. It can be either obstructive or non obstructive.
Transcript
Azoospermia is no sperm within the ejaculate and can be a devastating problem to the patients, especially psychologically when they first find out. The commonest causes of azoospermia, in fact, are either obstructive azoospermia or non-obstructive. In other words, obstructive means there's a blockage, or non-obstructive the testicles aren't working as well as they should. In obstructive azoospermia, sometimes the tubes can be rejoined up to be patent, but sometimes sperm is just retrieved from the testicle and used for ICSI treatment. In non-obstructive azoospermia, although sperm isn't produced in the ejaculate in about 50% of men, you can retrieve sperm directly from the testis by a technique called microdissection sperm retrieval, which has clearly revolutionised the management of non-obstructive azoospermia.
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