Improvement of sperm parameters after varicocelectomy: a single center study during six years

Objective: One of the causes of male infertility is varicocele that has negative effects on sperm parameters.Bydoing varicocelectomy that it is an effective method for the treatment, there will be significant recovery insperm parameters. The aim of this study is to evaluate sperm parameters before and after Varicocelectomy and apregnancy rate in patients.Methods: This cross-sectional study has been performed on patients with primary and secondary infertility whounderwent varicocelectomy during 2009-2014 in hospitals of Sari, north of Iran. Demographic data has beenextracted from hospital records and necessary information about spermogram has been gathered according to achecklist designed for this purpose. We used a questionnaire that contained demographic characteristics ofpatients and values of variables before and after varicocelectomy. Finally all data have been analyzedstatistically using SPSS ver.20.The significance level was set at 0.05.Results: of51 studied cases with the mean age of 37.3 years 50.98 percentswere above 40 years of old. 24patients had varicocele grade II and 27 ones had grade three. Bilateral varicocelewas the dominant type inpatients. The final finding represented that sperm indexes improved significantly after the varicocelectomy(p=0.001).Conclusion: Results of our study showed that varicocelectomy leads to significant differences in spermparameters (count, motility and morphology), while the fertility rate also significantly increased.

کلیدواژه ها:

Infertility ، Spermogram ، Varicocele