- inclusion criteria
- exclusion criteria
- age of patients
- age of partner
- grade
- sperm counts
- sperm motility
- grade a+b sperm
- Sperm morphology
impaired semen quality | |
with normal level of serum hormones including FSH, LH, Thyroid hormones and PRL | |
patient's spouse was healthy in reproduction | |
All above | yes
|
20-39 years old who had infertility for more than 1 year and had clinical palpable varicoceles |
subclinical varicocele, recurrent varicoceles | |
normal semen analyses | |
other reasons of infertility than varicoceles | |
refusing to enter randomization | |
female partner older than 35 years | |
abnormal level of serum hormones | |
female factor infertility | |
with significant surgical diseases, congenital diseases or endocrine diseases | |
none of the above | yes
|
age of' patients | 25 y |
age of partner | 24 y |
grade II | yes
|
grade III |
sperm counts | 18.02 ×10e6/ml |
sperm motility | 18.75 % |
grade a+b sperm | 20.29 % |
sperm morphology(normal) | 38.87 % |
- operative time
- Hospital stay
- Number of veins ligated
- Number of arteries preserved
- Number of lymphatics spared
operation time | 33 min |
hospital stay | 5 d |
number of veins ligated | 4 |
number of arteries perserved | 3 |
number of lymphatics apared | 3 |
postoperative hydrocele | no
|
recurrent varicocele | no
|
pregnancy | no
|
testis atrophy | no
|
sperm counts | 28.97 x10e6/ml |
sperm motility | 36.46 % |
garde a+b sperm | 52.2 % |
sperm morphology(normal) | 24.81 % |
sperm counts | 22.27 x10e6/ml |
sperm motility | 31.74 % |
garde a+b sperm | 55.32 % |
sperm morphology(normal) | 25.82 % |
sperm counts | 29.06 x10e6/ml |
sperm motility | 39.54 % |
garde a+b sperm | 62.52 % |
sperm morphology(normal) | 36.98 % |