Memphis urologists addressed myths about vasectomies in a recent Commercial Appeal report.
A vasectomy is a minor in-office procedure performed under local anesthetic that renders a man sterile by cutting a small tube in the testicles. According to the National Institutes of Health, approximately 500,000 men — one in six — undergo the procedure in the United States every year.
Despite their relative safety and ability to be reversed, vasectomies are still less common than tubal litigations for women. Memphis urologists blamed this on myths that men harbor about the procedure: namely, that a vasectomy will alter their sex life, heighten their susceptibility to heart disease and prostate cancer or weaken their masculine image.
John Adams, MD, a urologist at The Conrad Pearson Clinic, and Mark Saslawsky, MD, said these fears are groundless. They said vasectomies have a 5 percent complication rate, which includes post-vasectomy pain and swelling, but most complications are reported to disappear after a few days.
Read the Commercial Appeal report on vasectomies.
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A vasectomy is a minor in-office procedure performed under local anesthetic that renders a man sterile by cutting a small tube in the testicles. According to the National Institutes of Health, approximately 500,000 men — one in six — undergo the procedure in the United States every year.
Despite their relative safety and ability to be reversed, vasectomies are still less common than tubal litigations for women. Memphis urologists blamed this on myths that men harbor about the procedure: namely, that a vasectomy will alter their sex life, heighten their susceptibility to heart disease and prostate cancer or weaken their masculine image.
John Adams, MD, a urologist at The Conrad Pearson Clinic, and Mark Saslawsky, MD, said these fears are groundless. They said vasectomies have a 5 percent complication rate, which includes post-vasectomy pain and swelling, but most complications are reported to disappear after a few days.
Read the Commercial Appeal report on vasectomies.
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