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More attention should be paid to the treatment of male infertility with drugs—testosterone: to use it or not?

Testosterone replacement is strictly contraindicated for the treatment of male infertility’ was the advanced view from the ‘2013 European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines on male infertility’, and this view brings extensive concern and questions. Although sufficient numbers of well-performed...

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Autor principal: Li, Hong-Jun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24435051
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1008-682X.122343
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description Testosterone replacement is strictly contraindicated for the treatment of male infertility’ was the advanced view from the ‘2013 European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines on male infertility’, and this view brings extensive concern and questions. Although sufficient numbers of well-performed and controlled clinical trials that provide evidence supporting drug treatment of male infertility are not available at present, the opportunity to prove that these drugs are effective should not be prevented, and rigorous examination of drug therapy should be encouraged and strengthened. Therefore, I believe the above conclusion in the EAU guidelines is poorly conceived.
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spelling pubmed-39553392014-03-25 More attention should be paid to the treatment of male infertility with drugs—testosterone: to use it or not? Li, Hong-Jun Asian J Androl Opinion Testosterone replacement is strictly contraindicated for the treatment of male infertility’ was the advanced view from the ‘2013 European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines on male infertility’, and this view brings extensive concern and questions. Although sufficient numbers of well-performed and controlled clinical trials that provide evidence supporting drug treatment of male infertility are not available at present, the opportunity to prove that these drugs are effective should not be prevented, and rigorous examination of drug therapy should be encouraged and strengthened. Therefore, I believe the above conclusion in the EAU guidelines is poorly conceived. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 2014-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3955339/ /pubmed/24435051 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1008-682X.122343 Text en Copyright: © Asian Journal of Andrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short More attention should be paid to the treatment of male infertility with drugs—testosterone: to use it or not?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24435051
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1008-682X.122343
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