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Revista científica ciencias de la salud

On-line version ISSN 2664-2891

Abstract

OLMEDO-SAMUDIO, Jennifer; GALEANO, Juan Manuel  and  RUIZ-VALDEZ, Oscar Manuel. Prevalence of alterations of the male factor in patients consulting at a reference clinic for infertility between august 2018 - august 2019. Rev. cient. cienc. salud [online]. 2021, vol.3, n.2, pp.11-18. ISSN 2664-2891.  https://doi.org/10.53732/rccsalud/03.02.2021.11.

Infertility is the inability of a couple to conceive after one year of regular sexual life without using a family planning method. The male factor as a cause of infertility is present in 30 to 50% of cases. Objective: To determine the frequency of the altered male factor in couples with infertility treated at the Neolife Clinic from August 2018 to August 2019. Material and methods: An observational, retrospective descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out. Spermograms of couples who attended the consultation for infertility were reviewed, collection and analysis of the semen samples was based on standards established by the WHO. Results: Of 150 couples, 89 (59.3%) showed alterations in the seminal indexes, the mean age of this group was 37.8 ± 6.7 years. Regarding sperm volume, 9 patients (6%) presented hypospermia, the amount of sperm showed azoospermia in 5 patients (3.3%) and oligozoospermia in 35 (23.3%), by the sperm concentration, 37 patients (24.6%) had oligozoospermia, by the percentage of progressive motile spermatozoa, 31 (20.6%) had asthenozoospermia, according to the percentage of normal forms, 59 (39.3%) had teratozoospermia and the count of motile spermatozoa was decreased in 52 (34.6%). In 50.6% of the altered seminograms, there was one isolated alteration, in 13.5% two alterations and in the remaining 35.9% more than two alterations. Conclusions: An import proportion of couples had alteration of the male factor. The main alterations were teratozoospermia, decreased motile sperm count, and oligozoospermia.

Keywords : diagnosis; male infertility; semen analysis.

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