[Effect of Palomo procedure on the quality of the semen in infertile patients with varicocele and oligoastenospermia].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the effect of Palomo's surgery on the semen quality from oligospermic infertile men with varicocele.


METHODS
Retrolective cohort.


METHODS
Hospital General Regional No. 1, IMSS, Culiacán, Sinaloa.


METHODS
39 oligospermic infertile men with varicocele.


METHODS
Palomo's surgery.


METHODS
A spermatobioscopy before the Palomo's surgery was performed, and after the surgery two spermatobioscopies in different times of six months.


RESULTS
Spermatobioscopy before the surgery: Concentration/mL = 8.8 +/- 4.1 millions, Motility = 19.5 +/- 10.0%, Vitality = 66.2 +/- 14.4%. First spermatobioscopy after surgery: Concentration/mL = 29 3 +/- 18 3 Motility = 41 5 +/- 19 1, Vitality = 74.7 +/- 14.5. Second spermatobioscopy after surgery: Concentration/mL = 14.6 +/- 10.3, Motility = 28.0 +/- 14.8, Vitality = 78.7 +/- 16.8. All differences from the spermatobioscopy before the surgery were significant.


CONCLUSIONS
Palomo's surgery has a favorable effect on the quality of the semen, with a diminishing trend in concentration and motility in the second semester after the surgery. The pregnancy rate was 15%.
Avila-Vergara
M A
MA
Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Hospital General Regional No. 1, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México.
Balderas-Ariza
J A
JA
Córdova-González
K
K
Hernández-Guerrero
C
C
D000328:Adult; D015331:Cohort Studies; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D009845:Oligospermia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013076:Sperm Count; D013081:Sperm Motility; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000502:physiology*; D014646:Varicocele / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*