A therapeutic trial based on pharmacologically induced azoospermia followed by the administration of corticosteroids was carried out in 48 patients with infertility due to spermagglutinins. Three types of responses were observed: type A, no modifications in the blood and spermagglutinating (SA) titer (19 cases); type B, disappearance or significant decrease in SA titer during treatment, with return to normal values upon resumption of spermatogenesis (7 cases); and type C, disappearance or significant decrease in SA titer for at least 1 year after stopping treatment (22 cases). Within the 1st year after stopping therapy only men who responded in type C fashion were able to impregnate partners; three pregnancies ended in abortion and nine in normal births.
Treatment and follow-up of patients with infertility due to spermagglutinins / F., Dondero; A., Isidori; Lenzi, Andrea; M., Cerasaro; Mazzilli, Fernando; P., Giovenco; C. :., Conti. - In: FERTILITY AND STERILITY. - ISSN 0015-0282. - 31:1(1979), pp. 48-51.
Treatment and follow-up of patients with infertility due to spermagglutinins
LENZI, Andrea;MAZZILLI, Fernando;
1979
Abstract
A therapeutic trial based on pharmacologically induced azoospermia followed by the administration of corticosteroids was carried out in 48 patients with infertility due to spermagglutinins. Three types of responses were observed: type A, no modifications in the blood and spermagglutinating (SA) titer (19 cases); type B, disappearance or significant decrease in SA titer during treatment, with return to normal values upon resumption of spermatogenesis (7 cases); and type C, disappearance or significant decrease in SA titer for at least 1 year after stopping treatment (22 cases). Within the 1st year after stopping therapy only men who responded in type C fashion were able to impregnate partners; three pregnancies ended in abortion and nine in normal births.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
