MALE INFERTILITY TREATMENT
Regardless of age, some men experience infertility and sexual dysfunction that affects their quality of life.
Male infertility happens when men cannot father biological children due to impotence, erectile dysfunction or when sperm fail to reach and fertilise potential eggs.
What causes male infertility?
A low sperm count and motility rate are contributory to male infertility. Less than fifteen million sperm per ml of semen is considered a low sperm count. Also, when your sperm isn’t mobile, it cannot fertilise your partner’s egg.
Medical causes for infertility are:
- Varicoceles are swollen veins within your testicles that cause irregular blood flow, leading to poor sperm quality and quantity.
- A sexually transmitted disease and viral infection such as gonorrhoea or HIV can damage your testicles permanently, but sperm can still be retrieved for later use.
- Ejaculatory problems cause the semen to enter the bladder instead of exiting from the penis tip. For example, previous urinary tract surgery, diabetes, a spinal injury and certain medicines can trigger retrograde ejaculation.
- Erectile dysfunction is psychologically or physically related and can occur due to stress, low testosterone, high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, blocked blood vessels, obesity and Parkinson’s disease.
- A tubule defect that affects the transportation of sperm causes tiny tubes which carry sperm to become blocked due to inflammation, infectious diseases and cystic fibrosis.
- A testicle that has not descended is a foetal abnormality that affects male fertility. The undescended testicle is abnormally high up in the body, which increases the temperature, reducing the sperm count and its quality.
MALE UROLOGY
FEMALE UROLOGY
PAEDIATRIC UROLOGY
GENERAL UROLOGY
CALCULI OF THE KIDNEYS, BLADDER AND URETER
