• Treatment
  • In vitro fertilisation (IVF)
  • Intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
  • Intrauterine insemination (IUI)
  • Donor insemination (DI)
  • Genetic testing
  • Gamete intra fallopian transfer (GIFT)
  • In vitro maturation (IVM)
  • Reproductive immunology
  • Surrogacy
  • Fertility drugs
  • Surgery
    • Surgery for women
    • Surgery for men
• Storage
• Using donated sperm, eggs or embryos in your treatment
• When treatment fails, what next?
• Risks of fertility treatment

Some cases of infertility in both men and women can be helped with surgery.

Sterilisation can sometimes be reversed: fallopian tubes can be unblocked using keyhole surgery and, for men who cannot produce sperm (if they have had a vasectomy, or a failed vasectomy reversal), sperm can be retrieved surgically for use in fertility treatment.

The HFEA does not regulate any surgery.

For more information on surgery, see:

• Surgery for women
• Surgery for men

Page last updated: 14 April 2009

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