Microsurgery offers hope to 50% of infertile men

Fifty percent of infertility problems are related to the husband, according to a senior specialist.

Assisted reproductive technology, or test tube baby procedures, should be the last resort as half of all such infertile men can be treated by microsurgery, he said.

Zhang Zhichao, head of the Andrology Center at Peking University First Hospital, said: "We hope each man with infertility can be effectively treated by an andrologist through one 'cycle' and strive to achieve a natural pregnancy."