Acute renal failure may lead to reversible azoospermia.
OBJECTIVE
To report a possible association between azoospermia and acute renal failure.


METHODS
A case report.


METHODS
An in vitro fertilization unit in an academic medical center.


METHODS
A patient with high-gonadotropin azoospermia and a history of acute obstructive renal failure because of bilateral renal calculi, who was referred for testicular sperm extraction.


METHODS
Deferral of the surgical procedure.


METHODS
Return of sperm into the patient's ejaculate.


RESULTS
Four months after normalization of his renal function tests, the sperm analysis showed reversal of the azoospermic state.


CONCLUSIONS
Azoospermic patients with recent history of acute renal failure would be followed up for several months after renal function normalization, awaiting reappearance of sperm in the ejaculate.
Eldar
Ido
I
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IVF Unit, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel.
Godin
Miri
M
Bdolah
Yuval
Y
Hurwitz
Arye
A
Haimov-Kochman
Ronit
R
D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000150:complications*; D053713:Azoospermia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D013076:Sperm Count; D013081:Sperm Motility; D013091:Spermatogenesis