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Isolated follicle stimulated hormone deficiency in male: case report
BACKGROUND: Recent rapid advances in assisted reproductive health technologies enables couples with subfertility to conceive through various intervention. Majority of treatment modalities target the female partner. However it is important to identify and treat male factor subfertility right at the o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769506/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29335009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3109-4 |
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author | Ratnayake, Gowri M. Weerathunga, P. N. Ruwanpura, L. P. Wickramasinghe, Amila Katulanda, Prasad |
author_facet | Ratnayake, Gowri M. Weerathunga, P. N. Ruwanpura, L. P. Wickramasinghe, Amila Katulanda, Prasad |
author_sort | Ratnayake, Gowri M. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Recent rapid advances in assisted reproductive health technologies enables couples with subfertility to conceive through various intervention. Majority of treatment modalities target the female partner. However it is important to identify and treat male factor subfertility right at the outset. We report a case of isolated follicle stimulating hormone deficiency resulting in azoospermia and primary subfertility. CASE PRESENTATION: A 28 year otherwise healthy male presented with primary subfertility with a healthy female counterpart. He was found to have non obstructive azoospermia with low seminal fluid volume. He had normal external genitalia and potency with increased libido. Further evaluation revealed an isolated deficiency of follicle stimulating hormone with elevated testosterone levels. His luteinizing hormone and prolactin levels were normal. Contrast enhanced CT scan of chest, abdomen and pelvis and MRI scan of the pituitary fossa were normal too. CONCLUSION: In the era of modern reproductive technology it is important to further evaluate males with non-obstructive azoospermia to detect underlying gonadotropin deficiency. |
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spelling | pubmed-57695062018-01-25 Isolated follicle stimulated hormone deficiency in male: case report Ratnayake, Gowri M. Weerathunga, P. N. Ruwanpura, L. P. Wickramasinghe, Amila Katulanda, Prasad BMC Res Notes Case Report BACKGROUND: Recent rapid advances in assisted reproductive health technologies enables couples with subfertility to conceive through various intervention. Majority of treatment modalities target the female partner. However it is important to identify and treat male factor subfertility right at the outset. We report a case of isolated follicle stimulating hormone deficiency resulting in azoospermia and primary subfertility. CASE PRESENTATION: A 28 year otherwise healthy male presented with primary subfertility with a healthy female counterpart. He was found to have non obstructive azoospermia with low seminal fluid volume. He had normal external genitalia and potency with increased libido. Further evaluation revealed an isolated deficiency of follicle stimulating hormone with elevated testosterone levels. His luteinizing hormone and prolactin levels were normal. Contrast enhanced CT scan of chest, abdomen and pelvis and MRI scan of the pituitary fossa were normal too. CONCLUSION: In the era of modern reproductive technology it is important to further evaluate males with non-obstructive azoospermia to detect underlying gonadotropin deficiency. BioMed Central 2018-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5769506/ /pubmed/29335009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3109-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Ratnayake, Gowri M. Weerathunga, P. N. Ruwanpura, L. P. Wickramasinghe, Amila Katulanda, Prasad Isolated follicle stimulated hormone deficiency in male: case report |
title | Isolated follicle stimulated hormone deficiency in male: case report |
title_full | Isolated follicle stimulated hormone deficiency in male: case report |
title_fullStr | Isolated follicle stimulated hormone deficiency in male: case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Isolated follicle stimulated hormone deficiency in male: case report |
title_short | Isolated follicle stimulated hormone deficiency in male: case report |
title_sort | isolated follicle stimulated hormone deficiency in male: case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769506/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29335009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3109-4 |
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