title: [Vasectomy: criteria of choice or protocol?].
abstract: The authors describe the experience of a medical staff specialized in welcoming, advising and realizing vasectomies on patients, and this according to a particular method in which traditional preliminary criteria of age, fatherhood and autoconservation are substituted by a continuous effort to listen and advise patients over a long period of time. 1385 cases have been selected over a period of one to ten years. The socio-demographic analysis defines an "ideal-type candidate": he is a middle or upper white collar; aged 37; married; he has fathered more children than the average and at a younger age than the average; and he has used up every well-tried means of contraception. The only technical variation observed was the length of the resected canal. The more widely defined failure rate can be evaluated at 2.3% of the 1426 cases. This failure rate appears to be linked with the size of the resection, too small (less than 5 mm) during two years. This caused the repermeabilization through granulomas, histologically authentified, of half of the observed cases that failed over a period of twelve years. The psychosexual consequences, analyzed through questionnaires, are judged satisfactory and confirm the possibility for the authors to accept vasectomy demands in a humanistic perspective, conciliating individual autonomy and safety in selecting candidates.
authors.affiliation: C.P.E.F. de l'Hôpital St-Jacques, C.H.U.R. de Nantes.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bourmeau
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Le Danois
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lucas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010334:Paternity; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012662:Semen Preservation; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014659:Vasectomy / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: Vasectomie. Critères de choix ou protocole?