What is azoospermia and can a person with azoospermia have biological children?
Azoospermia is the term used when there is a complete absence of sperm in the ejaculate. Most patients assume that this diagnosis would rule out the possibility of his ever conceiving a child; if there are no sperm how can there be conception? However the reality is that a semen analysis which shows the absence of sperm in the ejaculate does not rule out either the possibility that sperm is being produced and not delivered to the semen, or that interventions may help the man produce sperm. Even in those cases where after intervention there is still no sperm in the ejaculate, there may be a possibility of harvesting small amounts of sperm, which have been produced in the testes as a result of the interventions.
