ArticleSpinal cord2017
Testicular responses to hCG stimulation at varying doses in men with spinal cord injury.
Article in Spinal cord, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Factors affecting sexual health in individuals with spinal cord injury: A systematic scoping review.Chinese journal of traumatology = Zhonghua chuang shang za zhi · 2025Article
- The Pathophysiology, Identification and Management of Fracture Risk, Sublesional Osteoporosis and Fracture among Adults with Spinal Cord Injury.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Review
- Comparison of the effect of combined therapy of HCG ampule and letrozole tablet with each method separately on the spermogram parameters in the obese men with idiopathic infertility: a clinical trial.American journal of clinical and experimental urology · 2022Article
- Longitudinal Examination of Bone Loss in Male Rats After Moderate-Severe Contusion Spinal Cord Injury.Calcified tissue international · 2019Article
- Body composition changes with testosterone replacement therapy following spinal cord injury and aging: A mini review.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2018Review
- Spinal cord injury and male infertility-a review of current literature, knowledge gaps, and future research.Translational andrology and urology · 2018Review
- Activity-Based Physical Rehabilitation with Adjuvant Testosterone to Promote Neuromuscular Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Review
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Abstract
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designProspective.
objectivesTo test whether provocative stimulation of the testes identifies men with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI), a population in which serum testosterone concentrations are often depressed, possibly due to gonadal dysfunction. To accomplish this objective, conventional and lower than the conventional doses of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) were administered.
methodsThirty men with chronic SCI (duration of injury >1 year; 18 and 65 years old; 16 eugonadal (>12.1 nmol l
resultsThe average gonadal response in the SCI and AB groups to each dose of hCG was not significantly different in the hypogonadal or eugonadal subjects, with the mean serum testosterone concentrations in all groups demonstrating an adequate response.
conclusionsThis work confirmed the absence of primary testicular dysfunction without additional benefit demonstrated of provocative stimulation of the testes with lower than conventional doses of hCG. Our findings support prior work that suggested a secondary testicular dysfunction that occurs in a majority of those with SCI and depressed serum testosterone concentrations.
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