title: [Relationship between the TCM-type of male infertility and laboratory results of semen and serum sex hormone].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the relationship between the TCM-type of male infertility and the laboratory results of sex hormone.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ninety-eight patients with male infertility were divided into 5 groups: Shenyangxu, Shenyinxu, Tanshineiyu, Ganyuxieyu and Jianjiaheng. Semen and blood samples were taken from each patient. Then both semen routine and serum hormone tests were performed, in which CLIA was used with sex hormone.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The routine test of semen showed that Shengyangxu group had a lower semen count (P < 0.01) and a lower survival ratio (P < 0.01) than shenyinxu group. Ganyuxieyu group had a lower survival ratio (P < 0.01) and inferior motility (P < 0.01). While the sex hormone test, showed that the Shenyinxu, Tanshineiyu, and Ganyuxueyu group had a higher level of testosterone (P < 0.05) than Shenyangxu group, and Shenyinxu group had a lower level of LH, FSH than Shenyanxu group (P < 0.05, P < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Some relationship does exist between the TCM-type of male infertility and semen count, survival ratio and serum T, LH, FSH concentration.
mesh_terms: D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone / Q000097:blood; D006728:Hormones / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D012661:Semen / Q000166:cytology*; D013081:Sperm Motility; D013739:Testosterone / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D006728:Hormones; D013739:Testosterone; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone