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Vasectomy: AUA Guideline
Ira D. Sharlip,Arnold M. Belker,Stanton J. Honig,Michel Labrecque,Joel L. Marmar,Lawrence S. Ross,Jay I. Sandlow,David C. Sokal +7 more
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This guideline was peer reviewed by 55 independent experts during the guideline development process and recommended that vasectomy be considered for permanent contraception much more frequently than is the current practice in the U.S. and many other nations.About:
This article is published in The Journal of Urology.The article was published on 2012-12-01. It has received 157 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Guideline & Vasectomy.read more
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An automated smartphone-based diagnostic assay for point-of-care semen analysis
Manoj Kumar Kanakasabapathy,Magesh Sadasivam,Anupriya Singh,Collin Preston,Prudhvi Thirumalaraju,Maanasa Venkataraman,Charles L. Bormann,Mohamed Shehata Draz,John C. Petrozza,Hadi Shafiee,Hadi Shafiee +10 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a low-cost smartphone accessory can be used for home-based male infertility screening and suggested that the integration of microfluidics, optical sensing accessories, and advances in consumer electronics, particularly smartphone capabilities, can make remote semen quality testing accessible to people in both developed and developing countries who have access to smartphones.
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Home sperm testing device versus laboratory sperm quality analyzer: comparison of motile sperm concentration
Ashok Agarwal,Manesh Kumar Panner Selvam,Rakesh Sharma,Kruyanshi Master,Aditi Sharma,Sajal Gupta,Ralf Henkel,Ralf Henkel +7 more
TL;DR: The smartphone-based YO Home Sperm Test has a high level of accuracy and precision when compared with the SQA-Vision, which supports its use as an effective home sperm test for screening "low" and "moderate/normal" MSC cases.
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Cost Consideration in the Clinical Guidance Documents of Physician Specialty Societies in the United States
TL;DR: The approach to consideration of cost in publicly available clinical guidance documents and methodological statements produced between 2008 and 2012 by the 30 largest US physician specialty societies are evaluated to demonstrate greater transparency and rigor in their approach to cost consideration in documents meant to influence care decisions.
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Male contraception: history and development.
Paul Kogan,Moshe Wald +1 more
TL;DR: The currently available, soon to be available, and theoretically possible methods of male contraception are reviewed.
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Provision of Contraception: Key Recommendations from the CDC
TL;DR: All patients-including adolescents; those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender; and patients with disabilities or limited English proficiency-should receive high-quality care in an accommodating, nonjudgmental environment.
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Complications of vasectomies in the United States.
TL;DR: Most urologists performed vasectomies, whereas family physicians and general surgeons were less likely to do so, and maintenance of surgical skills appears to be important in preventing complications of this usually low-risk procedure.
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Vasectomy and the incidence of testicular cancer
TL;DR: The authors cannot rule out the possibility that there is a true difference of the effect of vasectomy on the incidence of testicular cancer as a function of religion, but it seems more plausible that selective underreporting by Catholic controls has produced a spurious relation.
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Does vasectomy accelerate testicular tumour? Importance of testicular examinations before and after vasectomy.
TL;DR: It is suggested is that vasectomy accelerates the incidence of a palpable tumor from a carcinoma in situ, or possibly that tumors are often overlooked during a vasectomy.
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Pih9 cost-effectiveness analysis of contraceptives available in united states
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Tubal sterilization or vasectomy: how do married couples make the choice?
Warren B. Miller,Warren B. Miller,Rochelle N. Shain,Rochelle N. Shain,David J. Pasta,David J. Pasta +5 more
TL;DR: The motivations of both husband and wife, their mutual influence and communication, their present pattern of contraceptive use, and what they know about the satisfactions or dissatisfactions of other people who have had sterilizations are all factors that should be taken into account when the clinician helps a patient make the method-choice decision.