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Microsurgical vasectomy reversal

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What is microsurgical vasectomy reversal and why is it so important?

Wikipedia defines microsurgery as “a general term for surgery requiring an operating microscope.” The vas deferens (which is cut during a vasectomy) is very small and the vasectomy reversal success rate is much higher if a microscope is used. This is incredibly detailed work. The surgeon is aiming to rejoin the severed vas, with a leak-proof connection of a channel only 0.3 mm in diameter. Microsurgery increases the patency and pregnancy rate of vasectomy reversals.

“Before the refinement of microsurgical techniques, results of vasectomy reversal were relatively poor, with pregnancy rates varying from 5 to 30 percent… Microsurgical techniques of reversal now result in return of sperm to the ejaculate in over 90 percent of men and yield pregnancy rates in the patient’s partner of better than 50 percent.” – From the Cornell University Department of Urology web page on microsurgical vasectomy reversal.”

Here are some other resources that address microsurgical vasectomy reversal:

2 Comments

  • Wayne Kuang
    June 12th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    Thank you for having this valuable website as a resource for our patients. We just opened the Southwest Fertility Center for Men (the first of its kind in New Mexico to provide state-of-the-art microsurgical vasectomy reversals). I would enjoy the opportunity to talk with you more about your website and see whether you think other couples would benefit from using the Vasectomy Reversal Predictor program (www.southwestmalefertility.com/vasreversalpredictor.htm).
    Warm regards,
    Wayne Kuang MD
    (505) 353 1961 cell

  • Vasectomy Reversal UK
    January 10th, 2011 at 8:15 am

    You provide much valuable information for patients here though readers might feel that the main centres for vasectomy reversal exist in the US.

    One of the most successful and busiest vasectomy reversal clinics in the UK is run by Duncan Harriss DM FRCS (Urol) who is an expert in micro-surgical vasectomy reversal having performed many hundreds. He has a very high reputation and would gladly answer any questions UK residents may have:
    http://www.YourVasectomyReversal.co.uk/contactus.html.

    Kind regards,
    Your Vasectomy Reversal Clinic

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