Endocrine Abstracts

Men actively participate in family planning and fertility treatments. Much is now understood about the hormonal regulation of spermatogenesis and its therapeutic manipulation. Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism is uncommon but provides the opportunity to restore natural fertility using gonadotrophin therapy. Prenatal-onset (e.g. Kallmann’s), cryptorchidism and small testes predict a poorer spermatogenic response compared to post pubertal onset cases; natural fertility occurs i...

Robert McLachlanProfessor Robert McLachlan, FRACP, PhD is a Principal Research Fellow of the Australian NH&MRC and Director of Clinical Research at Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. His interests include male reproductive endocrinology and the evaluation and management of male infertility, and androgen physiology. He is Deputy Director of Endocrinolog...