Plasmapheresis in the Treatment of Male Infertility. Literature Review and Own Observation

Abstract

The problem of infertility is one of the most urgent problems of obstetrics and urology. Its frequency is in 5-11% of marriages, and, in addition to “female” there is and male infertility sometimes. Among its reasons play an important role autoimmune disorders when, after often have long forgotten injuries, and even orhiepididymitis varicocele arise autoantibodies against their own sperm that found in 8-21% of cases in men for suspected male infertility. They are capable of breaking the mobility of spermatozoa, and the ability of the latter to penetrate through the shell of the oocyte, without which it is impossible to even in vitro fertilization, the success of which in such cases does not exceed 40% [1].