My Vasectomy Reversal

It’s been approximately 15 years since my vasectomy, which dramatically reduces the chances of a successful vasectomy reversal . This means that I have at best around a 70% chance of patency (the return of sperm to the semen) and, all other things being equal, a 40 to 60% chance of my wife becoming pregnant. [...]

Those are big words; maybe that’s why you sometimes see them hyphenated as vaso-vasostomy and vaso-epididymostomy. Vasectomy reversals are subdivided into these two different procedures, so let’s take a closer look. Vaso-vasostomy or Vaso-epididymostomy? The vaso-vasostomy is an easier and simpler procedure, in which the severed ends of the vas deferens are [...]