Houston doctor pioneers ultrasound heat map to treat male infertility

Summary

A local physician is transforming male infertility care by using non-invasive ultrasound imaging to find viable sperm with greater precision. Dr. Taylor Kohn, a urologist with Baylor College of Medicine and CommonSpirit St. Luke's Hospital in Sugar Land, helped pioneer the breakthrough technique. Instead of surgeons performing exploratory incisions blindly, the new method uses a two-minute scrotal ultrasound and computer analysis to create a detailed map highlighting viable sperm pockets, which are then retrieved for use in in-vitro fertilization. Men who produce no sperm in their ejaculate…

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