Description
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent male infertility and reproductive tract disorders through medical therapy, microsurgery, and collaboration with assisted reproduction teams.
- • Teach or train clinical and laboratory staff in male fertility evaluation and care.
- • Document and review reproductive, sexual, medication, and exposure histories.
- • Provide male infertility consultation to patients, partners, and reproductive care teams.
- • Refer patients to endocrinology, genetics, oncology, or reproductive endocrinology as needed.
- • Direct the work of nurses, sonographers, and andrology lab personnel.
- • Diagnose and treat varicoceles and obstructive lesions with microsurgery (varicocelectomy, vasovasostomy, vasoepididymostomy).
- • Perform sperm retrieval procedures for ART (TESA, PESA, TESE, micro-TESE).
- • Order and interpret semen analyses, endocrine panels, genetic tests, and scrotal ultrasound.
- • Prescribe medical therapy for male infertility and hypogonadism (e.g., clomiphene, hCG, FSH, aromatase inhibitors).
- • Manage ejaculatory and sexual dysfunction affecting fertility, including retrograde ejaculation and anejaculation.
- • Diagnose and treat reproductive tract infections; prescribe antibiotics or anti-inflammatories.
- • Counsel on lifestyle, occupational, and environmental factors affecting fertility; coordinate sperm cryopreservation.
- • Collaborate with IVF and andrology laboratories to optimize specimen handling and ART outcomes.
- • Maintain accurate records, informed consent, and outcome reporting for procedures and treatments.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
