A Practical Guide to Basic Laboratory Andrology

This practical, extensively illustrated handbook covers the procedures that are undertaken in andrology and ART laboratories to analyse and assess male-factor infertility, and to prepare spermatozoa for use in assisted conception therapy. The content is presented as brief, authoritative overviews of the relevant biological background for each area, plus detailed, step-by-step descriptions of the relevant analytical procedures. Each technical section includes quality control considerations and the optimum presentation of results. In addition to the comprehensive 'basic' semen analysis, incorporating careful analysis of sperm morphology, the handbook provides established techniques for the use of computer-aided sperm analysis and sperm functional assessment. The interpretation of laboratory results in the clinical context is highlighted throughout, and safe laboratory practice is emphasized. Fully revised, incorporating the new ISO TS 23162 on basic human semen analysis throughout, this is an invaluable resource to all scientists and technicians who perform diagnostic testing for male-factor infertility.

David Mortimer is President of Oozoa Biomedical Inc, Vancouver, Canada, and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University Dundee, Soctland, UK.

Lars Bjӧrndahl is Head of the Andrology Laboratory, at the ANOVA Centre for Andrology, Sexual Medicine and Trans Gender Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Christopher L. R. Barratt is Head of Division for Post Graduate Medicine and Professor of Reproductive Medicine, University of Dundee, Scotland.

José Antonio Castilla is Medical Director, CEIFER Biobanco – NextClinics; head of the Andrology and embryology Laboratory, Hospital Universitario Virgen de Las Nieves and Leader of the Research Group in Reproduction, Instituto de investigación biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain.

Roelof Menkveld is Professor Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.