Clinical Andrology. Eau/esau Course Guidelines

Overview

Andrology is a fast growing subject, organizing as a subspecialty in its own right and reflecting the increasing awareness of the role of diseases and of dysfunction of the male reproductive system, and of the clinical consequences for fertility of androgen and testosterone levels.

Endorsed by the European Association of Urology (EAU), Clinical Andrology is the first major textbook in the field. Based on the courses run by the EAU and ESAU, it is an invaluable help for andrologists and urologists, both qualified and in training.

With worldwide contributions, including US, Clinical Andrology provides a complete perspective on the subject through four subsections:

1. Male Infertility
2. Andrological Endocrinology
3. Urogenital Infections and STD
4. Male Sexual Dysfunction

Offering an exhaustive and easy accessible content for clinicians, it also:

• Covers the psychological aspects of dysfunction
• Covers the relevance of the topic for patients treated for cancer
• Includes evidence-based medicine (levels of evidence) in relevant chapters

Contents

• MALE INFERTILITY

1. Defining Male Factor Infertility
2. Clinical Investigation of the Infertile Man
3. The Female Factor in Male Infertility
4. Semen Analysis and Laboratory Quality for Clinicians
5. Genetic Causes of Male Infertility and Their Impact on Future Generations
6. Conventional Treatment of the Male in Infertile Couples
7. Non-surgical Methods for Sperm Retrieval
8. ART with Surgically Removed Sperm
9. Sperm Preparation for ART and IUI
10. IUI for Male Subfertility
11. IVF and ICSI for Treating Male Infertility
12. Surgery for Male Infertility: Surgical Treatment of Obstructive Azoospermia
13. Surgical Sperm Retrievals
14. Varicocelectomy and its Alternatives
15. Semen Cryopreservation
16. Testicular Tissue for ICSI
17. Donor Insemination: Past, Present, and Future Challenges
18. Male Contraception
19. Prevention of Male Infertility
20. Testicular Cancer and Male Infertility
21. Male Aging and Reproduction

• ANDROLOGICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY

1. Sex Steroids in Men
2. Gonadotrophins and Gonadotrophin Receptors
3. Androgen Effects in Reproductive and Non-reproductive Organs
4. Clinical Aspects of Male Sex Differentiation
5. Disturbances in Male Pubertal Development
6. Clinical Investigation and Laboratory Analyses in Male Hypogonadism
7. Testosterone Deficiency Syndrome
8. Androgen Replacement: Indications and Principles
9. Cancer and Androgen Deficiency
10. Gynecomastia

• UROGENITAL INFECTIONS AND STD

1. Male Infertility in Chronic Urogenital Infections and Inflammation
2. Inflammatory Parameters of the Ejaculate
3. Sperm Morphology in Urogenital Tract Infections
4. Immunological Aspects of Male Accessory Gland Infection
5. ROS and sperm DNA Integrity

• MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION

1. Hemospermia
2. Prostatic Disease and Male Sexual Dysfunction
3. Sexual Dysfunction and the Prostate
4. Psychological Abnormalities of Male Sexual Function
5. Ejaculatory Disorders
6. Diagnostic Management of Erectile Dysfunction
7. Conservative Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction
8. Surgery for Erectile Dysfunction
9. Peyronie’s Disease and Penile Curvature
10. Female to Male Transexualism
11. Male to Female Transexualism
12. Priapism

Author Bio

Lars Björndahl, MD, PhD
Centre for Andrology and Sexual Medicine, Clinic for Endocrinology, DEpartment of Medicine, Huddinge, and Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Aleksander Giwercman, MD, PhD
Reproductive Medicine Centre, Malmö University Hospital, Sweden

Herman Tournaye, MD, PhD
Centre for Reproductive Medicine, University Hospital of the Dutch-speaking, Brussels Free University, Belgium

Wolfgang Weidner, MD
Department of Urology, Pediatric Urology and Andrology, University of Giessen, Germany