Sperm Collection and Processing Methods: A Practical Guide

This practical guide to sperm collection and processing methods demonstrates how successful these procedures are to overcome even severe infertility. This compilation, prepared by an interdisciplinary team of experts, provides clinical and laboratory professionals in reproductive medicine with a comprehensive overview and a useful source of reference. Difficulties with sperm procurement can involve biological deficiencies with sperm creation, delivery, or both. The various procedures described in this text are all designed for one purpose: acquisition of as many viable sperm as possible, given initial patient conditions. Once sperm are collected, a myriad of processing methods are then available to optimize their fertilization potential. Recent advances have made fertility conditions once deemed hopeless a thing of the past. Most sterility cases are now either treatable or entirely circumvented through various clinical and laboratory techniques described in this volume, including surgical correction, hormone treatment, and various sperm enhancement technologies.

• Describes new procedures that help alleviate even severe cases of male infertility • Summarises the experience of many experts involved in this area • Practical and accessible account with helpful illustrations and clear description of procedures

Contents
Part I. Sperm Procurement Methods R. S. Jeyendran and Craig Niederberger: Patient semen collection R. S. Jeyendran and Jane M. Nani; Patient semen collection with assistance Jane M. Nani and R. S. Jeyendran; Clinical semen collection David Chen and Robert Brannigan; Anejaculatory men David Chen and R. S. Jeyendran; Azoospermic men Robert Brannigan; Clinical sperm collection Richard Schoor, Lawrence S. Ross and Craif Niederberger; Part II. Sperm Processing Methods R. S. Jeyendran and X. John Zhang: General procedures: Sperm washing, sperm treatment and cryopreservation R. S. Jeyendran, Andrew Ruiz and X. John Zhang; Sperm processing procedure for intrauterine insemination Andrew Ruiz and R. S. Jeyendran; Sperm processing procedure for assisted reproductive technology X. John Zhang and R. S. Jeyendran.

Contributors
R. S. Jeyendran, Craig Niederberger, Jane M. Nani, David Chen, Robert Brannigan, Richard Schoor, Lawrence S. Ross, X. John Zhang, Andrew Ruiz.