FSH Treatment for Non-obstructive Azoospermic Patients

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2016-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

Aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of highly purified human follicle-stimulating hormone treatment on the chance of retrieving testicular sperm (sperm retrieval rate) from infertile male patients with non-obstructive azoospermia of unknown origin.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Azienda Sanitaria Locale Bari
• Collaborator: Minia University
• Treatments: Follicle Stimulating Hormone; Hormones

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Azoospermia;

• testis longitudinal axis less than 4.5 cm;

• serum follicle-stimulating hormone greater than 7.6 IU/L

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of testicular biopsy,

• malignancy,

• varicocele,

• hyperprolactinemia,

• thyroid disfunction,

• chemotherapy,

• radiotherapy