Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To analyse the semen quality in patients with newly diagnosed Hodgkin’s disease before starting the treatment.Materials and methods: We evaluated semen quality in 67 patients with Hodgkin’s disease who underwent sperm banking in our clinic over a 10-year period. Semen samples were collected by masturbation after 2–7 days of sexual abstinence. Age at banking, semen volume, sperm concentration, and total and progressive sperm moti...

Disturbances of thyroid hormones produce clinical symptoms but hormonal level at which this happens vary from patient to patient. In order to determine how much hormonal change patients can tolerate before developing symptoms we retrospectively collected data of 86 hyperthyroid and 48 hypothyroid patients, 120 females and 14 males aged 28–85 and 23–74 yrs respectively. We included only patients who at some time during treatment had abnormal values of TSH and/or thyro...

Introduction: We evaluated the efficiency of TESA–ICSI method in infertile men with obstructive azoospermia. Testicular spermatozoa are obtained by fine-needle aspiration of testis (23 G) and than injected into cytoplasm of the oocyte.Methods: In the study, there were 173 married couples with 253 attempts of artificial fertilization (1.45 attempts per couple). Average age of women were 31 years and of men 36 years. Obstructive azoospermia was detect...

Level of pituitary trophic hormone dictates dose of hormone replacement (HRT) in endocrine gland hypofunction. We examined 28 women receiving HRT in postmenopausis aged 46–63 yrs (54±4.27 yrs). In average patients started HRT two years after last spontaneous menstrual bleeding (28±3.76 months, 1–132 months). 8 patients used transdermal estradiol, 10 peroral combination of estradiol, estriol and norethisterone and 10 patients were treated by fixed peroral co...