title: [Seminal changes of inflammatory origin].
abstract: Presence of bacteria in the sperm is often associated to a reduction of fertility in relationship with a decrease in number and motility of spermatozoa and with an augmentation of the abnormal spermatic cells. Clinical features of seminal phlogosis are extremely variable both in acute and chronic evolutions. In every case the first diagnostical step is sperm count and seminal complete analysis which can give evidence of phlogistic alteration in quantity and quality of spermatic cells with a typical presence of an excess in white blood cells (leucospermia) as consequence of infection. The great variety in clinical and bacteriological aspects and the particular biological features of the organs involved, as the prostate, make treatment a difficult problem to solve with particular regard to the choice of an effective antibiotic which pharmacokinetic has to result suitable for the microorganism as well as for the tissue of the infection site. All those efforts are indispensable to reduce the too frequent therapeutical failures in the management of seminal phlogistic pathology with complications of organic but also pathological relevancy for the patient and the partner too.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Urologia, Università di Milano.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mantovani
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mastromarino
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Colombo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Austoni
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D005832:Genital Diseases, Male / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000209:etiology*; D007249:Inflammation; D008297:Male; D012661:Semen / Q000382:microbiology*; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
vernacular_title: Alterazioni seminali di origine flogistica.