Lol We have tons of pictures, I just haven't got them printed out yet! I will very soon and I will definitely send some!! Oh and a little about our little miracle! Andrew was born April 30th and weighed 8lbs 3ozs!! Now at 4 months he weighs 15lbs! He is such a wonderful baby and we don't know what we would do without him! Thank you all so much!! Well bye for now!!

Hey Sonja! This is Britney. We are going to be coming down your way on the 10th and I was curious if Dr. Kuang was going to be in the office that day? We would really like to bring our precious little Andrew to meet you all! Please let me know! Thanks so much!!

At this year’s 2010 national American Urologic Association’s meeting in San Francisco, California, Dr. Werthman reported his experience with vasectomy reversals with 45 men with post-vasectomy pain syndrome. 75% of them were cured of their pain and 10% had a >30% improvement.
Bottomline: For those unfortunate men who suffer from post-vasectomy pain syndrome, there is hope. While there is no guarantee, most men will improve after a vasectomy reversal. Seek out a vasectomy reversal specialist who can evaluate whether a state-of-the-art vasectomy reversal can help you with your post-vasectomy pain. 082710

At this year’s 2010 national American Urologic Association’s meeting in San Francisco, California, Cassidy et al. from Toronto Canada looked back at all the male patients at their institution that had underwent radiologic treatment for varicoceles (dilated veins in the scrotum that can hinder the testicles ability to make sperm and testosterone). The varicoceles were treated by embolization (where the major blood vessels in your body are accessed via a small skin puncture, and the blood vessels causing the varicoceles are blocked off using metal coils or clogging agents). They found that the success rate for treating left-sided varicoceles (97%) was comparable to microsurgical varicocele ligations whereas the embolization of right-sided varicoceles had a much higher failure rate of 13%.
Bottomline: If the hospital near you has radiologic specialists who can do these embolizations, it is a treatment option that is comparable to microsurgical varicocele ligations. If you have bilateral varicoceles or a right-sided varicocele, you may be better served by having the microsurgical repair since the embolizations don’t work as well for the right side. As always, consult your male fertility doctor to learn what he is most comfortable with at your medical institution. -082010

At this year's 2010 national American Urologic Association's meeting in San Francisco, California, Ragheb et al. from Cleveland, Ohio analyzed the cryopreserved sperm samples of 34 men with cancer (such as testicular cancer, Hodgkin's disease and Non-Hodgkin's disease) and found that their sperm had higher levels of DNA damage as compared to healthy normal men (39% vs 27%).
Bottomline: This concept of assessing sperm DNA damage before cancer therapy may provide a useful tool to assess whether the level of sperm DNA damage after cancer therapy has returned to a man's baseline levels to help counsel men about post-therapy fertility potential. -81310