Cystic fibrosis and infertility caused by congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens and related clinical entities

The condition of congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD) is, in the majority of patients, related to defects in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. CBAVD patients either are compound heterozygotes (carrying different mutations in their two CFTR genes... View More