Infertility secondary to an infected hydrocele: A case report

Hydroceles are one of the most common causes of scrotal swelling affecting around 1% of the adult population. While hydroceles are usually asymptomatic, some hydroceles can lead to infertility. We will present a case of a 34-year-old man who was referred to our center as a case of primary infertilit...

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Autores principales: Fallatah, Moayid, Aljuhaiman, Ahmad, Alali, Hamed, Ahmed, Sara, Alhathal, Naif
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Endourology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6909161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31886135
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.101071
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author Fallatah, Moayid
Aljuhaiman, Ahmad
Alali, Hamed
Ahmed, Sara
Alhathal, Naif
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Ahmed, Sara
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description Hydroceles are one of the most common causes of scrotal swelling affecting around 1% of the adult population. While hydroceles are usually asymptomatic, some hydroceles can lead to infertility. We will present a case of a 34-year-old man who was referred to our center as a case of primary infertility (sever oligospermia 1.1 million/ml) for 4 years and was found to have bilateral hydroceles (infected right hydrocele). At 18 months post bilateral hydrocelectomy, the patient's total sperm count improved to 43 Million/ml. Therefore, we highly recommend considering hydrocele as an etiology in any patient with idiopathic infertility.
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spelling pubmed-69091612019-12-27 Infertility secondary to an infected hydrocele: A case report Fallatah, Moayid Aljuhaiman, Ahmad Alali, Hamed Ahmed, Sara Alhathal, Naif Urol Case Rep Endourology Hydroceles are one of the most common causes of scrotal swelling affecting around 1% of the adult population. While hydroceles are usually asymptomatic, some hydroceles can lead to infertility. We will present a case of a 34-year-old man who was referred to our center as a case of primary infertility (sever oligospermia 1.1 million/ml) for 4 years and was found to have bilateral hydroceles (infected right hydrocele). At 18 months post bilateral hydrocelectomy, the patient's total sperm count improved to 43 Million/ml. Therefore, we highly recommend considering hydrocele as an etiology in any patient with idiopathic infertility. Elsevier 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6909161/ /pubmed/31886135 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.101071 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Fallatah, Moayid
Aljuhaiman, Ahmad
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Ahmed, Sara
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Infertility secondary to an infected hydrocele: A case report
title Infertility secondary to an infected hydrocele: A case report
title_full Infertility secondary to an infected hydrocele: A case report
title_fullStr Infertility secondary to an infected hydrocele: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Infertility secondary to an infected hydrocele: A case report
title_short Infertility secondary to an infected hydrocele: A case report
title_sort infertility secondary to an infected hydrocele: a case report
topic Endourology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6909161/
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