ReviewThe world journal of men's health2021
Clinical Update on Home Testing for Male Fertility.
Review in The world journal of men's health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- From Test Offer to Urologic Follow-up: Acceptability of Semen Analysis in Male Infertility and Preconception Care.Cureus · 2026Review
- Very Low Uptake in Workplace Semen Analysis Research: Formative Web-Based Cross-Sectional Follow-Up Survey Distinguishing Employees With Self-Reported Unawareness From Aware Nonparticipants.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Validation of a Novel Smartphone-Based Point-of-Care Semen Analysis System to Evaluate Male Reproductive Potential: A Concordance Study with Computer-Assisted Sperm Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Integrating Sperm Microscopy, Environmental Exposures, and Lifestyle Factors for Male Fertility Analysis: Protocol for the Nippon Semen and Environmental Exposure Database (N-SEED) Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Artificial intelligence in infertility treatment: Applications, challenges, and future directions: A narrative review.International journal of reproductive biomedicine · 2026Review
- Comparing remote smartphone-based semen assessments with laboratory evaluations in men unselected for fertility concerns.Fertility and sterility · 2025Article
- Validation of a mail-in delayed semen analysis protocol developed for home collection.F&S reports · 2024Article
- Emerging approaches to male contraception.Andrology · 2024Review
- Male Reproduction in Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and the Potential Impact of Oral Survival of Motor Neuron 2 (SMN2) Pre-mRNA Splicing Modifiers.Neurology and therapy · 2024Article
- Introducing a New Smartphone Applied Semen Analyzer, SpermCell™: A Cross-Sectional Validation Study with a Comparative Analysis and a Mini Patient Questionnaire on a Large Sample Cohort.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Artificial Intelligence in Andrology: From Semen Analysis to Image Diagnostics.The world journal of men's health · 2024Review
- Male reproductive aging: can men with oligospermia become azoospermic over time?International journal of impotence research · 2023Review
- What advances may the future bring to the diagnosis, treatment, and care of male sexual and reproductive health?Fertility and sterility · 2022Review
- The Variability of Semen Parameters With Sexual Abstinence Using Mail-in Sperm Testing Is Similar to That Seen With Traditional In-Office Semen Analysis.American journal of men's healthArticle
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Male factor infertility accounts for about 50% of the incidence of infertility in couples. In current practice, the men must attend a clinic or hospital facility to provide a semen analysis, which is key to the diagnosis of the male reproductive potential. However, many men are often embarrassed with the process and conventional semen analysis requires complex, labor intensive inspection with a microscope. To mitigate these problems, one of the solutions can be at-home semen analysis. In this review we examine the literature of currently available at home semen analysis test kits, describe their limitations, and compare them to the conventional lab-based methods.
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