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ReviewArab journal of urology2018

Role of varicocele treatment in assisted reproductive technologies.

Mehmet G Sönmez, Ahmet H Haliloğlu

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Review in Arab journal of urology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Association Between Leukocytospermia and Varicocele in Patients With Infertility.American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) · 2026
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  12. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mehmet G SönmezDepartment of Urology, Meram Medical Faculty, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey.
Ahmet H HaliloğluDepartment of Urology, Ufuk University Medicine School, Ankara, Turkey.
Necmettin Erbakan University · TRUfuk University · TR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveIn this review, we investigate the advantage of varicocele repair prior to assisted reproductive technologies (ART) for infertile couples and provide cost analysis information. MATERIALS AND

methodsWe searched the following electronic databases: PubMed, Medline, Excerpta Medica Database (Embase), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). The following search strategy was modified for the various databases and search engines: 'varicocele', 'varicocelectomy', 'varicocele repair', 'ART', '

resultsA total of 49 articles, including six meta-analyses, 32 systematic reviews, and 11 original articles, were included in the analysis. Bypassing potentially reversible male subfertility factors using ART is currently common practice. However, varicocele may be present in 35% of men with primary infertility and 80% of men with secondary infertility. Varicocele repair has been shown to be an effective treatment for infertile men with clinical varicocele, thus should play an important role in the treatment of such patients due to the foetal/genetic risks and high costs that are associated with increased ART use.

conclusionVaricocele repair is a cost-effective treatment method that can improve semen parameters, pregnancy rates, and live-birth rates in most infertile men with clinical varicocele. By improving semen parameters and sperm structure, varicocele repair can decrease or even eliminate ART requirement.

Indexed as

ART, assisted reproductive technologiesAssisted reproductive technologyCINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health LiteratureEmbase, Excerpta Medica DatabaseICSI, intracytoplasmic sperm injectionIntracytoplasmic sperm injectionIn vitro fertilisationIUI, intrauterine inseminationIVF, in vitro fertilisationNOA, non-obstructive azoospermiaROS, reactive oxygen speciesSDF, sperm DNA fragmentationTESE, testicular sperm extractionTMSC, total motile sperm countVaricoceleVaricocelectomy

Identifiers

PMID29713550
PMCPMC5922188
OpenAlexW2789520576

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