Pregnancy with microsurgical vas sperm aspiration from a patient with neurologic ejaculatory dysfunction.
Patients with neurologic ejaculatory dysfunction who wish to have a child commonly undergo electroejaculation, which, unfortunately, may fail to stimulate either antegrade or retrograde ejaculation of sperm. Even when sperm are obtained with electroejaculation, conception still may not be achieved. We describe the achievement of a pregnancy after the intrauterine insemination of sperm obtained from microsurgical aspiration of the vas deferens. The intrauterine insemination of electroejaculated sperm had failed to achieve a pregnancy on three previous occasions. The relative merits of vas sperm aspiration and electroejaculation as part of the assisted reproduction regimen for men who have neurologic ejaculatory dysfunction are discussed.
Belker
A M
AM
Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky.
Sherins
R J
RJ
Bustillo
M
M
Calvo
L
L
D000328:Adult; D002469:Cell Separation; D004542:Ejaculation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000209:etiology; D007315:Insemination, Artificial; D008297:Male; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D013048:Specimen Handling; D013094:Spermatozoa; D014649:Vas Deferens / Q000166:cytology* / Q000601:surgery