DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR SEVERITY LEVEL OF VARICOCELE AND ITS RECURING Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC A61B10/00 G01N33/74 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to urology and vascular surgery. The sex hormones level in an involved vein is considered to be a criterion of the severity level of varicocele. There are evaluated the following sex hormones: testosterone, estradiol, progesterone simultaneously in the pampiniform plexus veins of a left ovary and in the peripheral vein of a bend of elbow, with determining the ratio of the sex hormones level in a healthy vein of the bend of elbow to the varicocele-involved pampiniform plexus vein. If said ratio of the sex hormones level is 1:10 to 1:50, the first degree of varicocele is diagnosed. Recurrent varicocele and the second degree of varicocele is diagnosed by the ratio of the sex hormones level in the healthy and involved veins 1:50 to 1:100 times (i.e. hormones concentration in a varicose vein is increased in tens times). If observing the ratio of the sex hormones level in the healthy vein and the involved vein of the pampiniform plexus veins of the left ovary increasing more than in 1:100, the third degree of varicocele is diagnosed. Surgical intervention is indicated if the ratio of the sex hormones level is diagnosed more than 1:50.

EFFECT: method allows improving diagnostic accuracy of varicocele severity and diagnosing the recurrence on the basis of objective numerical information, and also accurately stating indications for varicocele surgery.

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