Antisperm antibodies: Antisperm antibodies and infertility: an unsolvable question?

Abstract excerpt

Once again the detection and clinical significance of antisperm antibodies (ASA) is being discussed (Helmerhorst et al., 1999). Although it is cautiously concluded that `there is reason to accept antibody-mediated antisperm immunity as a cause of subfertility', the authors list three reasons why the clinicians are not inclined to test for ASA in subfertile couples: (i) lack of a standardized and universally...