METHOD OF TREATING RELATIVE STERILITY IN VARICOCELE Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A61K38/24 A61P15/08 A61B8/06 A61B17/12 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, particularly to urology, and can be used for treating relative sterility in varicocele. That is ensured by preoperative testicle Doppler sonography (size and volume), evaluation of spermogram and hormonal status (blood plasma testosterone concentration). It is followed by calculation of a testicle atrophy index (TAI), and if the testicle atrophy index exceeds 22 % in normal testosteronemia, and if the testicle atrophy index exceeds 15% in hypertestosteronemia, the Mannar subinguinal microsurgical varicocelectomy is required. The patients not showing any improvements of the spermogram values within 12 months after varicocelectomy are additionally prescribed with a hormone-stimulating therapy by human chorionic gonadotropin preparations.

EFFECT: method allows higher clinical effectiveness and lower drug-induced body burden due to an adequate choice of a therapeutic approach consisting in proved prescription of the hormone-stimulating therapy.

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