Clinical Investigation in Husbands of Infertile Couples

Kim, Jae Seong; Lee, Jhy Bok

Abstract

A clinical investigation was undertaken on Infertile males who seen our department during the period from 1978 to 1982. The results obtained sub as follows : 1. A total of 275 Infertile male corresponds to 1.8% of total male out-patients for the period of 5 years. 2. Numbers of Infertile male patients are increasing yearly. 3. Duration of infertile marital life ranged the mean being 3.8 years. It was 6.10% of the total infertile males that the patient had been visited psycho-dept because of neurosis(94%) 4. Susceptive etiological factors in the oligospermia, azoospermia are listed as follow : 1) epididymitis, 16.4% 2) cryptorchidism, 5.6% 3) Varicocele, 2.8% 4) Undetermined, 70.9% It was 35.9% of the total undetermined cases(l51 cases) that the past history of patient had suffered from prostatitis, urethritis. 6. Judging from the results of semen analysis(265 cases) is azoospermia was found in 21.5% oligospermia, in 58.5%, normospermia, in 20.0% 7. Findings of testicular biopsies of azoospermias(25 cases) showed that spermatogenic arrest was found in 32%, germ cell aplasia; in 24% hypospermatogenesis ; in 20% , peritubular or tubular fibrosis ; in 12%.