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Men are more susceptible to heart disease than women, and tend to have a slightly shorter natural lifespan. However, men are more resistant to many conditions that adversely affect women, such as osteoporosis.

Male-specific medical and surgical procedures include vasectomy and vasovasostomy (one of the vasectomy reversal procedures) as well as intervention to deal with male genitourinary disorders such as:

• balanitis
• cryptorchidism
• ectopia testis
• epispadias
• epididymitis
• hydrocele
• hypospadiasHypospadias is a birth defect of the urethra in the male that involves an abnormally placed urethral meatus (opening). Instead of opening at the tip of the glans of the penis, a hypospadic urethra opens anywhere along a line running from the tip along the
• impotence
• infertilityInfertility is the inability of a couple to naturally conceive, carry or deliver a healthy child. The International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination (INCIID) considers a couple to be infertile if they have not conceived "after a year of un
• micropenis
• orchitisOrchitis is severe swelling of the testicles. Results after severe infection. Some people inject their testicles with saline or some other form of injection to enlarge their testicles. This can be dangerous. I have had young patients come tell me that the
• Peyronie's diseasePeyronie's disease is a rare connective tissue disorder involving the growth of fibrous plaques in the soft tissue of the penis affecting as much as 1% of men. The exact cause is not known, although it is thought to be caused by injury to the internal cav
• prostatitisProstatitis is any form of inflammation of the prostate gland. Because women do not have a prostate gland, it is a condition only found in men. Prostatitis may account for up to 25 percent of all office visits by young and middle-age men for complaints in
• prostate cancerProstate cancer is the second most common type of cancer in men in the United States, after skin cancer. Of all the men who are diagnosed with cancer each year, more than one-fourth have prostate cancer. The prostate The prostate is a gland in a man's rep
• spermatocele
• testicular cancer
• testicular torsion
• varicocele

External links

• International Society of Andrology