One of the most common diseases that negatively affect the quality of sperm and the general ability to fertilize a man is varicocele.
Varicose veins are an anomaly that occurs in men 11.7%. However, in those with an abnormal sperm count, the incidence of varicocele increases to about 25%.
It is practically a disorder of the veins that remove blood from the testicles which, due to poor construction, swell and follow a serpentine course, resulting in blood pooling in the testicles.
It usually causes no symptoms, but sometimes there may be a feeling of heaviness or discomfort and, more rarely, pain in the affected testicle. The symptoms become more intense when the severity of the varicocele increases and are aggravated by standing or exercising.
The valid one diagnosis requires a specialized color ultrasound examination of the scrotum (scrotal doppler), where the width of the veins will be measured and the reflux of venous blood will be determined.
The presence of varicocele has been shown to progressively damage the testis through various mechanisms such as hypoxia and high temperature, resulting in low sperm quality, increased destruction of sperm genetic material (DNA fragmentation) and male infertility.
DNA fragmentation (damnslander of genetic material) when high has been blamed for low chances of normal conception as well as an increased miscarriage rate during the first trimester of pregnancy.
THE treatment hers is exclusively surgical. Using a surgical microscope (microsurgical varicocelectomy, microsurgical varicocelectomy), correction is now detailed with the result that classic complications of older surgical techniques (such as recurrence and hydrocele) have be eliminated.
The microsurgical repair of the varicocele is the more effective surgical treatment for varicocele compared to all other surgical methods and is performed exclusively by specialized andrologists.
