Abstract
Background: Varicocele, a bilateral vascular condition in which hypoxia can induce ischemic damage to both testes due to hydrostatic pressures in the venous drainage system, is a prominent cause of male infertility with a complex pathogenesis. varicocele make up 35% of primary infertility and 81% of secondary fertility. Methodology: A quasi-experimental study was conducted from January 2018 to September 2018 at urology department of Nawaz Sharif Kidney Hospital and Saidu Group of Teaching Hospitals, Swat. Sample size was 261. The study included all males between the ages of 20 and 60 who had clinically evident varicocele. Result: Results of our study P-value for pre-operative and post-operative sperm count was 0.00001 so statistically significant. According to the age distribution, 93 patients were in the age group 20-30 (35.63%), 70 patients in age group 31-40 years (27.01%), 60 patients aged 41-50 (22.98%), 38 patients aged 51 to 60 (14.26) %) are shown in Table 2. All cases had varicocele on the left side. Conclusion: After inguinal varicocelectomy, sperm count increases in adult patients with clinically palpable varicocele. Keywords: Adult male, Sperm count, Varicocele, Varicocelectomy.
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