{"id":1799,"date":"2016-07-22T15:27:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geneinfo.rs\/muski-sterilitet\/"},"modified":"2021-12-09T14:38:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T13:38:34","slug":"male-infertility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geneinfo.rs\/en\/male-infertility\/","title":{"rendered":"Male infertility"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/i> Back to Infertility<\/span><\/a>\n

Infertility is a serious problem of our time, especially for young married couples who are fighting an uphill battle with it. It is quite rare for both partners to be affected at the same time. This begs the age old question: \u201cWho is more often to blame for infertility and difficulties conceiving, men or women?\u201d Modern scientific data suggests that both men and women are equally to be blamed for this issue. But sadly in most parts of the world, women still take the brunt of the blame when it comes to infertility and problems conceiving (even doctors\u2019 fall into this way of thinking). Most males even have a problem talking or discussing male infertility.<\/p>\n

Causes of male infertility<\/strong><\/p>\n

The causes of male infertility are due to both internal and external factors being at work. External factors are: viruses, obesity, malnutrition, injury, radiation, smoking, alcohol, drug abuse and so on. Internal factors are genetic and most of the time inherited. Based on the results of spermatograms there are two possible aspects of treating.<\/p>\n

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<\/span>Bad sperm-easily diagnosed<\/strong><\/div>
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Aberrant spermogram<\/strong> – complete absence of sperm-azoospermia<\/strong>; decreased sperm count-oligospermia<\/strong>; altered, pathological structure of spermatozoa-teratospermia<\/strong>; decreased sperm motility-asthenozoospermia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The causes of the altered, pathological spermogram can be at different levels: at the level of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, at the level of the testicles, at the level of the drainage channels. The genes responsible for the formation of functional sperm (FS) are found on both autosomal chromosomes and sex (X and Y) chromosomes. These can be general functional genes, and \/ or genes whose narrower specialty is a specific function in the process of spermatogenesis. Talking about their number is impossible, because there are a large number of genes. Thus, for example, according to the integrated human gene database from the GeneCards site for azospermia or associated with azospermia, there are 212 genes, oligospermia 16 genes, teratospermia 1 gene, asthenozoospermia 24 genes; and according to the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) for azospermia or related 122 genes, oligospermia 28 genes, teratospermia 0, asthenozoospermia 17 genes. However, according to some authors (Matzuk MM, Lamb DJ 2002), some 2300 genes are directly or indirectly involved in the process of spermatogenesis.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Normal sperm but infertility exist<\/strong><\/div>
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Normal sperm but infertility exist<\/strong><\/p>\n

This form of infertility is much more subtitle and harder to diagnose. This kind of infertility is usually caused due to excessive DNA and chromosomal damage. Diagnosis is thus much more difficult. The main function of sperm is to deliver the father’s genetic material to the mother’s egg, thus forming a zygote and a “program” for the future development of the embryo. However, if the genetic material of the father is not in order, depending on the type of error, different consequences can occur: rejection of the fetus in the early stage of development ( the mother does not register conception), removal of the fetus in the later stage of development (spontaneous abortion), various consequences (stillborn baby, baby with severe malformations). Given the overall biological circumstances, the “most probable and most common” situation when it comes to genetically caused sterility in man is that the fetus is rejected at the earliest stage of development. Because these “mistakes” originated from sperm, they are more effectively recognized by the mother’s immune system. In such cases, artificial insemination is often not effective and the only way is genetic counseling and a proper family\/medical\/genetic history examination in order to establish the error and develop a possible exit strategy for such a married couple. Otherwise, when it comes to defects in the genetic material of sperm, they can be of different character and etiology, from fine subtle mutations to large chromosomal abnormalities.<\/p>\n

Therefore, in developed countries, the following approach in the treatment of sterility has recently been in circulation. Along with clinical trials of sterility, there is a genetic evaluation of the married couple and, if necessary, targeted genetic tests are performed. Not any genetic tests, but an appropriate tailored genetic test that solves the specific problem related to a certain married couple. The results are much more positive because of this approach. The true cause of infertility can be diagnosed. Thus, the treatment is much more successful. Symptomatic treatment of sterility is simply not approached. So if you are struggling with sterility, you are doing genetics along with clinical trials and analyzes. And the first thing is genetic counseling. To clarify everything and perform a complete evaluation of genetic status. And after that, if you get a valid explanation that is understandable to you, do a targeted genetic test. And you try to combine clinical analyzes and harmonize them with genetic results. If you succeed in this, the results will be much more successful.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Today, there are genetic tests that can precisely diagnose certain problems related to male sterility. You should also know that there are cases when a genetic test is not necessary and obligatory. Because after genetic counseling, valid information can be obtained that can solve the problem of sterility for a certain married couple.<\/p>\n

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It is proven that CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO AND GENETIC COUNSELING FOR INFERTILITY<\/strong> are the best corse of action that can be taken when facing this issue. This is the common approach in most developed countries.<\/p>\n

You can read the following article for more: \u00a0Rolf-Dieter Wegner Matthias Bloechle\u00a0Genetic testing in couples\u00a0with infertility\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Zentrum f\u00fcr Pr\u00e4nataldiagnostik, Kudamm 199 und Institut<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Infertility is a serious problem of our time, especially for young married couples who are fighting an uphill battle with it. It is quite rare for both partners to be affected at the same time. This begs the age old question: \u201cWho is more often to blame for infertility and difficulties conceiving, men or women?\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-blog.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneinfo.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneinfo.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneinfo.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geneinfo.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geneinfo.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geneinfo.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/geneinfo.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1799\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneinfo.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}