Vasectomies
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A few interesting facts about Vasectomies
A national survey was conducted of 719 men receiving vasectomies. The survey results suggest that men receiving vasectomies were mostly white (91%), married (90%), and in their thirties (average age 35.6 years). Some 48% had at least a bachelor's degree, 57% had a household income of $50,000 or more, and over 80% had private insurance. They valued the effectiveness and simplicity (compared to a tubal ligation for the woman) of the procedure.
How safe are vasectomies as a birth control method? Virtually foolproof. But like any medical procedure, there is no 100% guarantee.
Another survey, (the information was released on July 5, 2000 The Lancet Journal) stated that a typical vasectomy surgery takes 30 to 45 minutes. In the new study, researchers at the Elliot-Smith Clinic at Churchill Hospital in Oxford studied the records of more than 2,200 men who received vasectomies at the clinic. Of the men who were told their vasectomies were successful, 20 total men had sperm in their semen samples -- 15 after one year, four at the second year, and one at the third-year tests. On average, it takes 8 to 10 weeks and 12 to 20 ejaculations before all the sperm are absent from semen. Within that two month period after the procedure the men are tested for accuracy of the surgery. If the doctor feels that the surgery was unsuccessful then the procedure can be done again. There is no guarantee that the surgery will not fail at some point in the future. The simplest and safest vasectomy is the No-Scalpel Vasectomy or "NSV." Usually performed in a doctor's office, an NSV costs from $350 to more than $1,000.
Because men who have had vasectomies may sometimes have fewer white blood cells in their semen, having a vasectomy has been suggested as a possible way of reducing the sexual spread of HIV. Very little data exists on this possibility. However, studies of HIV-infected men who have had vasectomies have found that HIV and HIV-infected white blood cells can enter the semen through the membranes lining the sperm-carrying duct (vas-deferens) or urethra. Therefore, the semen of men who have had vasectomies can carry the virus, thus enabling the transmission of HIV (CDC May 22, 1992).
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