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Men's Reproductive and Sexual Health Throughout the Lifespan

Men's Reproductive and Sexual Health Throughout the Lifespan

Men's Reproductive and Sexual Health Throughout the Lifespan

An Integrated Approach to Fertility, Sexual Function, and Vitality
Douglas T. Carrell, Utah Center for Reproductive Medicine
Alexander W. Pastuszak, University of Utah
James M. Hotaling, Utah Center for Reproductive Medicine
January 2024
Hardback
9781009197557
$175.00
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    Approximately one in twenty men have sperm counts low enough to impair fertility but little progress has been made in answering fundamental questions in andrology or in developing new diagnostic tools or management strategies in infertile men. Many of these problems increase with age, leading to a growing population of men seeking help. To address this, there is a strong movement towards integrating male reproductive and sexual healthcare involving clinicians such as andrologists, urologists, endocrinologists and counselors. This book will emphasize this integrated approach to male reproductive and sexual health throughout the lifespan. Practical advice on how to perform both clinical and laboratory evaluations of infertile men is given, as well as a variety of methods for medically and surgically managing common issues. This text ties together the three major pillars of clinical andrology: clinical care, the andrology laboratory, and translational research.

    • Written and edited by clinicians working at the medical center pioneering this approach, this is the definitive guide to integrating male reproductive and sexual healthcare designed to bring readers from a variety of specialties to a shared level of understanding
    • Provides practical guidance on how to perform both clinical and laboratory evaluations of infertile men as well as a variety of methods for medically and surgically managing common issues
    • Presenting up to date advice and techniques, this is a comprehensive, integrated, 'one-stop shop' approach to men's reproductive and sexual health across the lifespan

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    January 2024
    Hardback
    9781009197557
    608 pages
    282 × 224 × 21 mm
    1.22kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Section I. An Introduction to Men's Health Care:
    • 1. How has men's health changed over the past two decades?
    • 2. The business landscape of men's health
    • 3. Urologic men's health, the internet, and social media
    • Section II. The Biology of Male Reproduction and Infertility:
    • 4. Current understanding of the physiology and histology of human spermatogenesis
    • 5. Male reproductive endocrinology
    • 6. Sperm chromatin packaging and the toroid linker model
    • 7. Ejaculation and sperm transport: physiology and clinical concerns
    • 8. Genetic aspects of male infertility
    • 9. The mechanistic and predictive utility of sperm epigenetics
    • 10. Aging and environmental interactions with the sperm epigenome
    • 11. The effects of aging on male fertility and the health of offspring
    • Section III. Clinical Evaluation and Treatment of Male Infertility:
    • 12. Office evaluation of the infertile male
    • 13. Medical management of male fertility
    • 14. Surgical management of male infertility
    • 15. Varicocele repair in the era of ICSI
    • 16. Implementing genetic testing of male infertility in the clinic
    • 17. Andrological care of the patient with spinal cord injury
    • 18. Clinical fertility preservation decision making for prepubertal and postpubertal individuals with male gametes
    • 19. Mental health considerations in the infertile male and couple
    • Section IV. Laboratory Evaluation and Treatment of Male Infertility:
    • 20. The modern semen analysis: theory and techniques of ejaculate examination
    • 21. The future of computer-assisted semen analysis in the evaluation of male infertility
    • 22. Reactive oxygen species and sperm DNA damage
    • 23. Clinical value of sperm DNA fragmentation tests
    • 24. The current use of sperm function assays
    • 25. Sperm selection in the laboratory
    • 26. Methods to select ejaculated, epididymal, and testicular spermatozoa for assisted conception
    • 27. Optimal sperm selection in the ICSI era
    • 28. Microfluidics for sperm sample preparation and sperm identification
    • 29. Practical concerns for patient semen banking
    • 30. The potential future applications of in vitro spermatogenesis in the clinical laboratory
    • 31. Spermatogonial stem cell culture and future of germline gene editing
    • Section V. Medical and Surgical Management of Issues of Male Health:
    • 32. Hypogonadism in the male: evaluation and treatment
    • 33. Selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) in the treatment of hypogonadism and men's health
    • 34. Male fertility and testosterone therapy
    • 35. Sleep and men's health
    • 36. Molecular biology and physiology of erectile function and dysfunction
    • 37. Evaluation of the male with erectile dysfunction
    • 38. Lifestyle modifications for erectile dysfunction
    • 39. Medical and surgical management of erectile dysfunction
    • 40. Surgical management of Peyronie's disease
    • 41. Medical management of BPH
    • 42. Chronic orchialgia.
      Contributors
    • Dyvon T. Walker, Sriram V. Eleswarapu, Amarnath Rambhatla, James M. Weinberger, Jesse N. Mills, Adithya Balasubramanian, Kassandra E. Zaila, James M. Hotaling, Chiara Capponi, Elena Vicini, Christos Tsametis, George Kanakis, Dimitrios G. Goulis, Hubert SzczygieÅ‚, Anna Ung, Hieu Nguyen, W. Steven Ward, Christopher Koprowski, Garrick Greear, Tung-Chin Hsieh, Albert Salas-Huetos, Kenneth I. Aston, Timothy G. Jenkins, Albert Salas-Huetos and Douglas T. Carrell, Alex M. Kasman, Francesco Del Giudice, Michael L. Eisenberg, Kevin J. Campbell, John F. Sullivan, Larry I. Lipshultz, Jason R. Kovac, Jesse B. Persily, Sameer Thakker, Bobby B. Najari, Jessica N. Schardein, Alexander Pastuszak, James W. Hotaling, Ahmad Majzoub, Chak Lam Cho, Sandro C. Esteves, Christian Fuglesang, S. Jensen, Jens Sønksen, Dana A. Ohl, Jerrine Morris, Heiko Yang, John Lindsey, James F. Smith, Elizabeth Grill, Lars Björndahl, David Mortimer, Sharon T. Mortimer, Sheena E. M. Lewis, Armand Zini, Sara Marchiani, Elisabetta Baldi, Denny Sakkas, Denis A. Vaughan, Sergey I. Moskovtsev, Michal Dviri, Clifford L. Librach, Joshua Calvert, Darshan Patel, Jim Hotaling, Raheel Samuel, Haidong Feng, Hayden Brady, Utpal Saha, Grace M. Centola, Swati Sharma, Stefan Schlatt, Xichen Nie, Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, Jingtao Guo, Parviz K. Kavoussi, G. Luke Machen, John T. Sigalos, Dyvon Walker, Larry I. Lipshultz, Juan Andino, James M. Dupree, Vanessa Peña, Taylor P. Kohn, James L. Liu, Arthur L. Burnett, Amin S. Herati, William T. Berg, Martin Miner, Jeffrey S. Edman, Jade Warner, Amy M. Pearlman, Mohit Khera, Skyler Howell, Aron Liaw, Faysal Yafi, Christopher Martin, Laurel Mast, Stephen Summers, Sharon P. Lo, Kelli X. Gross