title: Microsurgical epididymovasostomy.
abstract: Epididymal obstruction is found in about 30% of obstructive azoospermic patients. Half of these obstructions are due to unknown etiologies, followed by obstruction due to epididymitis. The development of a specific, mucosa-to-mucosa anastomosis of the epididymal tubule to the vasal mucosa using a surgical microscopy has greatly improved the outcome of epididymovasostomy. The patency and natural pregnancy rates in this study were 79% and 38%, respectively. Side-to-end anastomosis also decreases the technical difficulty in comparison to the end-to-end anastomosis procedure. An anastomosis at the epididymal caput generally results in a poorer outcome than at the corpus or cauda epididymis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuda
mesh_terms: D004822:Epididymis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery; D013733:Testicular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D014669:Vasovasostomy