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Semen Analysis in “Urology-Naïve” Patients: A Chance of Uroandrological Screening in Young Males
(1) Background: While females start their gynecological examinations during puberty, only few men decide to be visited by urologists in their youth. Given the participation in the EcoFoodFertility research project, our department had the opportunity to screen young males that were supposedly healthy...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10253905/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37298000 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12113803 |
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author | Puliatti, Stefano Toso, Stefano Ticonosco, Marco Rabito, Salvatore Sighinolfi, Maria Chiara Ferrari, Riccardo Rochira, Vincenzo Santi, Daniele Trenti, Tommaso Navarra, Michele Ferretti, Stefania Montano, Luigi Micali, Salvatore |
author_facet | Puliatti, Stefano Toso, Stefano Ticonosco, Marco Rabito, Salvatore Sighinolfi, Maria Chiara Ferrari, Riccardo Rochira, Vincenzo Santi, Daniele Trenti, Tommaso Navarra, Michele Ferretti, Stefania Montano, Luigi Micali, Salvatore |
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description | (1) Background: While females start their gynecological examinations during puberty, only few men decide to be visited by urologists in their youth. Given the participation in the EcoFoodFertility research project, our department had the opportunity to screen young males that were supposedly healthy. (2) Results: from January 2019 to July 2020, we evaluated 157 patients with sperm, blood analysis, and uroandrological examinations. The inclusion criteria were age 18–40 and absence of previous urological disease (urology-naïve). The primary endpoint of the study was to record uroandrological diseases that are occasionally discovered during examination in asymptomatic young men. The average age was 26.9 years (range 18–40); average testicular volume was 15.7 mL (range 12–22 mL); and 45.2% reported abnormal semen analysis: 62 cases of teratozoospermia, 27 asthenozoospermia, 18 oligozoospermia, and 2 azoospermia were discovered respectively; 4/157 patients were diagnosed with hypogonadism; 2 cases with suspicious testicular mass resulted in testicular cancer; and 31 suspected varicoceles and 8 patients with mild sexual dysfunctions were managed. (3) Conclusions: an uroandrological evaluation of young asymptomatic males allowed for the prompt diagnosis of different urological conditions, including cancerous ones, in our series. Despite being debatable, combining urological counselling with physical examination, semen analysis, and a laboratory profile could be useful and cost-effective in order to ameliorate male health. |
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spelling | pubmed-102539052023-06-10 Semen Analysis in “Urology-Naïve” Patients: A Chance of Uroandrological Screening in Young Males Puliatti, Stefano Toso, Stefano Ticonosco, Marco Rabito, Salvatore Sighinolfi, Maria Chiara Ferrari, Riccardo Rochira, Vincenzo Santi, Daniele Trenti, Tommaso Navarra, Michele Ferretti, Stefania Montano, Luigi Micali, Salvatore J Clin Med Brief Report (1) Background: While females start their gynecological examinations during puberty, only few men decide to be visited by urologists in their youth. Given the participation in the EcoFoodFertility research project, our department had the opportunity to screen young males that were supposedly healthy. (2) Results: from January 2019 to July 2020, we evaluated 157 patients with sperm, blood analysis, and uroandrological examinations. The inclusion criteria were age 18–40 and absence of previous urological disease (urology-naïve). The primary endpoint of the study was to record uroandrological diseases that are occasionally discovered during examination in asymptomatic young men. The average age was 26.9 years (range 18–40); average testicular volume was 15.7 mL (range 12–22 mL); and 45.2% reported abnormal semen analysis: 62 cases of teratozoospermia, 27 asthenozoospermia, 18 oligozoospermia, and 2 azoospermia were discovered respectively; 4/157 patients were diagnosed with hypogonadism; 2 cases with suspicious testicular mass resulted in testicular cancer; and 31 suspected varicoceles and 8 patients with mild sexual dysfunctions were managed. (3) Conclusions: an uroandrological evaluation of young asymptomatic males allowed for the prompt diagnosis of different urological conditions, including cancerous ones, in our series. Despite being debatable, combining urological counselling with physical examination, semen analysis, and a laboratory profile could be useful and cost-effective in order to ameliorate male health. MDPI 2023-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10253905/ /pubmed/37298000 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12113803 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Puliatti, Stefano Toso, Stefano Ticonosco, Marco Rabito, Salvatore Sighinolfi, Maria Chiara Ferrari, Riccardo Rochira, Vincenzo Santi, Daniele Trenti, Tommaso Navarra, Michele Ferretti, Stefania Montano, Luigi Micali, Salvatore Semen Analysis in “Urology-Naïve” Patients: A Chance of Uroandrological Screening in Young Males |
title | Semen Analysis in “Urology-Naïve” Patients: A Chance of Uroandrological Screening in Young Males |
title_full | Semen Analysis in “Urology-Naïve” Patients: A Chance of Uroandrological Screening in Young Males |
title_fullStr | Semen Analysis in “Urology-Naïve” Patients: A Chance of Uroandrological Screening in Young Males |
title_full_unstemmed | Semen Analysis in “Urology-Naïve” Patients: A Chance of Uroandrological Screening in Young Males |
title_short | Semen Analysis in “Urology-Naïve” Patients: A Chance of Uroandrological Screening in Young Males |
title_sort | semen analysis in “urology-naïve” patients: a chance of uroandrological screening in young males |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10253905/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37298000 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12113803 |
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