VARICOCELE - RELATION BETWEEN ANOXIA AND HYPO-SPERMATOGENESIS

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 22  (3) , 174-178
Abstract
Three groups of patients were analyzed: varicocele patients with abnormal seminal fluid (17 cases), variococele and normal sperm (7 cases) and normal males (17 cases). Blood gas was secured in the internal spermatic vein, peripheric vein and femoral artery, in an attempt to evaluate the possibility of altered gas content as a cause of spermatogenic depression. No statisical differences were found when the 3 groups were compared. Anoxia apparently was not the cause of hypospermatogenesis in varicocele patients.