title: [Basal blood prolactin levels in male "infertility": measurements of limited value (author's transl)].
abstract: Systematic measurements of basal blood prolactin (PLR) levels were conducted in 383 patients with sperm anomalies or features of marital sterility of hyposterility, and 47 subjects consulting for sexual disorders. PRL levels were rarely abnormal in the patients in the two groups. Though systematic measurement of PRL levels should still be continued in patients with sexual disorders, the author refutes their usefulness in subjects consulting for sterility, their value in these cases being determined after the consultation and clinical examination, and, in some cases, by examination of the sperm.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001971:Bromocriptine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000097:blood* / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011388:Prolactin / Q000097:blood*; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000097:blood; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000002:abnormalities
chemical_list: D001971:Bromocriptine; D011388:Prolactin
vernacular_title: La prolactinémie de base dans "l'infertilité" masculine: limites de l'intérêt de son dosage dans notre expérience.