IMMUNOLOGICAL ASPERMATOGENESIS IN MAN

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Authors:
F. BASSILI
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O. S. EL-ALFI
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1530/jrf.0.0210029
Volume/Issue:
Volume 21: Issue 1
Page Range:
29–35
Article Type:
Research Article
Online Publication Date:
Feb 1970
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Summary.

Corticosteroids were used in the treatment of a group of eighteen non-obstructive azoospermic or severely oligospermic patients showing a positive lymphocyte blastoid transformation test in response to a seminal antigen. A control group of eleven similarly affected patients with negative blastoid transformation tests was given the same treatment. Response was noticed in nine of the positive test group (50%), and one patient's wife conceived. None of the control group showed any response.

The value of this trial therapy is discussed.

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Print ISSN:
1470-1626
Online ISSN:
1741-7899