How is male infertility treated?

Treatment depends on what is causing your infertility.

Fertility help

This treatment involves helping your partner get pregnant. This may be through:

• Artificial insemination. This method puts many healthy sperm at the entrance of the cervix or right into the partner's uterus. The sperm can then make their way to the fallopian tubes.
• IVF, GIFT, and other techniques. In vitro fertilization (IVF) and gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT) work like artificial insemination. Your provider collects your sperm. Then he or she mixes your partner’s eggs with a lot of high-quality sperm. He or she may mix the eggs and sperm in the lab or in your partner’s fallopian tube.
• Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Your provider injects a single sperm into an egg. Fertilization then takes place under a microscope. Your provider puts the fertilized egg in your partner’s uterus.

Medicine

Hormone treatment may help you if you have a hormone disorder causing your infertility. Hormone imbalances can affect how sperm develop. They may be caused by a problem in how the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and testes interact. Treatment may include gonadotropin therapy or antibiotics.

Surgery

Your provider may use surgery to fix problems that keep sperm from being made, matured, or ejaculated. Surgery to remove twisted, swollen veins in the scrotum (varicocele) can sometimes improve the quality of sperm.
Check with your healthcare provider with any questions or concerns you have about your condition.

Key points about male factor infertility

• Male infertility means a man is not able to start a pregnancy with his female partner.
• Male infertility can have many causes. You may not make enough sperm or healthy sperm. You may have a genetic problem like cystic fibrosis. You may have a blockage in your genital tract.
• You may be more likely to have male infertility if you have had genital infections, injury to your testicles, or early or late puberty.
• Treatment depends on what is causing your infertility. Treatments include artificial insemination, medicines, and surgery.

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