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Using Data Mining to Assist in Predicting Reproductive Outcomes Following Varicocele Embolization

We carried out a retrospective analysis of infertile couple data using several methodologies and data analysis techniques, including the application of a novel data mining approach for analyzing varicocele treatment outcomes. The aim of this work was to characterize embolized varicocele patients by...

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Autores principales: Sousa, Ana Paula, Santos-Pereira, Judith, Freire, Maria José, Parada, Belmiro, Almeida-Santos, Teresa, Bernardino, Jorge, Ramalho-Santos, João
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8397051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34441799
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10163503
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author Sousa, Ana Paula
Santos-Pereira, Judith
Freire, Maria José
Parada, Belmiro
Almeida-Santos, Teresa
Bernardino, Jorge
Ramalho-Santos, João
author_facet Sousa, Ana Paula
Santos-Pereira, Judith
Freire, Maria José
Parada, Belmiro
Almeida-Santos, Teresa
Bernardino, Jorge
Ramalho-Santos, João
author_sort Sousa, Ana Paula
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description We carried out a retrospective analysis of infertile couple data using several methodologies and data analysis techniques, including the application of a novel data mining approach for analyzing varicocele treatment outcomes. The aim of this work was to characterize embolized varicocele patients by ascertaining the improvement of some of their clinical features, predicting the success of treatment via pregnancy outcomes, and identifying data patterns that can contribute to both ongoing varicocele research and the more effective management of patients treated for varicocele. We retrospectively surveyed the data of 293 consenting couples undergoing infertility treatment with male varicocele embolization over a 10-year period, and sperm samples were collected before and at 3, 6, and 12 months after varicocele embolization treatment and analyzed with World Health Organization parameters—varicocele severity grades were assessed with medical assessment and scrotal ultrasound, patient personal information (e.g., age, lifestyle, and embolization complications) was collected with clinical inquiries, and varicocele embolization success was measured through pregnancy outcomes. Varicocele embolization significantly improved sperm concentration, motility, and morphology mean values, as well as sperm chromatin integrity. Following this study, we can predict that a male patient without a high varicocele severity grade (with grade I or II) has a 70.83% chance of conceiving after embolization treatment if his partners’ age is between 24 and 33 with an accuracy of 70.59%. Furthermore, male patients successful in achieving pregnancy following embolization are mostly characterized by having a normal sperm progressive motility before treatment, a normal sperm concentration after treatment, a moderate to low varicocele severity grade, and not working in a putatively hazardous environment.
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spelling pubmed-83970512021-08-28 Using Data Mining to Assist in Predicting Reproductive Outcomes Following Varicocele Embolization Sousa, Ana Paula Santos-Pereira, Judith Freire, Maria José Parada, Belmiro Almeida-Santos, Teresa Bernardino, Jorge Ramalho-Santos, João J Clin Med Article We carried out a retrospective analysis of infertile couple data using several methodologies and data analysis techniques, including the application of a novel data mining approach for analyzing varicocele treatment outcomes. The aim of this work was to characterize embolized varicocele patients by ascertaining the improvement of some of their clinical features, predicting the success of treatment via pregnancy outcomes, and identifying data patterns that can contribute to both ongoing varicocele research and the more effective management of patients treated for varicocele. We retrospectively surveyed the data of 293 consenting couples undergoing infertility treatment with male varicocele embolization over a 10-year period, and sperm samples were collected before and at 3, 6, and 12 months after varicocele embolization treatment and analyzed with World Health Organization parameters—varicocele severity grades were assessed with medical assessment and scrotal ultrasound, patient personal information (e.g., age, lifestyle, and embolization complications) was collected with clinical inquiries, and varicocele embolization success was measured through pregnancy outcomes. Varicocele embolization significantly improved sperm concentration, motility, and morphology mean values, as well as sperm chromatin integrity. Following this study, we can predict that a male patient without a high varicocele severity grade (with grade I or II) has a 70.83% chance of conceiving after embolization treatment if his partners’ age is between 24 and 33 with an accuracy of 70.59%. Furthermore, male patients successful in achieving pregnancy following embolization are mostly characterized by having a normal sperm progressive motility before treatment, a normal sperm concentration after treatment, a moderate to low varicocele severity grade, and not working in a putatively hazardous environment. MDPI 2021-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8397051/ /pubmed/34441799 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10163503 Text en © 2021 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/).
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Using Data Mining to Assist in Predicting Reproductive Outcomes Following Varicocele Embolization
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title_short Using Data Mining to Assist in Predicting Reproductive Outcomes Following Varicocele Embolization
title_sort using data mining to assist in predicting reproductive outcomes following varicocele embolization
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