After varicocele surgery, postoperative hCG was linked to better semen quality results in men with low preoperative sperm counts, with 56% improved.
In plain wordsAfter varicocele surgery, postoperative hCG was linked to better semen quality results than surgery alone in men with low initial sperm counts.
- Outcome
- IncreaseSemen quality improvement
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Comparator
- Surgery without postoperative hCG in men with preoperative sperm counts below 10 million/ml
- Outcome group
- Sex hormones and fertility · Reproductive and sexual health
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Measurements
- Semen quality improved, postoperative hCG
- 56%
- men with preoperative sperm counts <10 million/ml, surgery plus postoperative hCG
- Semen quality improved, comparator group
- 33%
- men with preoperative sperm counts <10 million/ml, surgery group (comparator)
Source sentences
The empirical use of postoperative human chorionic gonadotropin therapy in this latter group improved results significantly (56% improved, 44% pregnancy rate).
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Statistically, the results were better in terms of semen quality improvement and pregnancy for patients who had preoperative sperm counts over 10 million/ml (88% improved, 68% pregnancy rate) than for patients who had preoperative sperm counts of less than 10 million/ml (33% improved, 23% pregnancy rate).
Over a ten-year period, surgical correction of varicocele was performed on 504 selected subfertile men.