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Germ-cell aplasia, also known as Sertoli-cell Only Syndrome (SCO), is an extremely rare but serious male infertility condition. In the United States, approximately 10 percent of couples struggle with fertility problems; only one-third of these cases result from pure male factor infertility, and only 5 to10 percent of these are caused by SCO.
In the majority of SCO cases, male fertility is impossible. However, there has been some advancement in male infertility solutions for men suffering from germ-cell aplasia. If a testicular biopsy reveals that there is a small amount of sperm present in patches of the testes, a specialist can extract them for in vitro fertilization (IVF) or artificial insemination.
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