The Role of Microsurgery in Surgical Treatment of Varicocele.

Medical University of Warsaw

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Infertility; Varicocele

Treatments: Procedure: laparoscopic varicocelectomy; Procedure: subinguinal microscopic varicocelectomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02722187

microvl/2015

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is to set the place of microsurgery in surgical treatment od varicocele in infertile male. Fourty patients will undergo microsurgical subinguinal varicocelectomy while the control group consisting of 20 patients wil undergo laparoscopic varicocelectomy.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinical varicocele
• infertility duration of min one year
• poor semen quality
• otherwise unexplained infertility in the couple

Exclusion criteria

• female infertility

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

microsurgery

Experimental group

Description:

40 patients will undergo subinguinal microscopic varicocelectomy

Treatment:

Procedure: subinguinal microscopic varicocelectomy

laparoscopy

Active Comparator group

Description:

20 patients will undergo laparoscopic varicocelectomy

Treatment:

Procedure: laparoscopic varicocelectomy