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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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Vasectomy by section, luminal fulguration and fascial interposition: results from 6248 cases.
TL;DR: The section-fulguration-fascial interposition technique of vasectomy was uniformly effective, with few post-operative problems.
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Open-ended vasectomy: an assessment.
Bruce B. Errey,Ian S. Edwards +1 more
TL;DR: Whether or not open-ended vasectomy improves the success rate of vasovasostomy, it represents an improvement in technique because it reduces the rate of complications after vasectomy.
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An evaluation of the no-scalpel vasectomy technique
TL;DR: To evaluate the magnitude and range of complications encountered during no‐scalpel vasectomy (NSV) and to identify any limiting factor or contraindication to NSV.
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Complications of 2,711 Vasectomies
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Association of vasectomy and prostate cancer among men in a Maryland cohort.
Sabine Rohrmann,Dina N. Paltoo,Elizabeth A. Platz,Sandra C. Hoffman,George W. Comstock,Kathy J. Helzlsouer +5 more
TL;DR: A positive association between vasectomy and prostate cancer, especially low-grade disease, is suggested, especially in men who were 40 years at the time of vasectomy.