Male Infertility Practice

Rizk (reproductive endocrinology and infertility, U. of South Alabama) et al. provide andrologists, urologists, and gynecologists with a guide to the medical and surgical management of male infertility. In 38 chapters, an international group of urologists, endocrinologists, andrologists, and other fertility specialists discusses aspects of physiology, including the development, structure, function, and hormonal control of the testis, sperm transport and maturation, seminal plasma, and the effects of the environment on fertility; diagnostic evaluation; and management, with discussion of psychological aspects, infections, intrauterine insemination, and assisted reproduction, including gamete manipulation and sperm retrieval techniques, fertility management in spinal cord injury and ejaculatory dysfunction, sperm banking, sperm preparation and selection, sperm apoptosis, antisperm antibodies detection and management, nonobstructive azoospermia, Klinefelter syndrome, Y-chromosome genetics and fertility, stem cells, the biological clock, and ethics. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)