ReviewThe world journal of men's health2022
Relevance of Leukocytospermia and Semen Culture and Its True Place in Diagnosing and Treating Male Infertility.
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- Areas of Controversy and Confusion in Male Infertility: A Call for Clarity.The world journal of men's health · 2026Article
- Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Male Reproductive Health: From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Consequences.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Epidemiological and pathogen characteristics of symptomatic male reproductive tract infections in Hunan province: retrospective study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Prostatitis-Related Male Infertility: From Inflammation and Dysbiosis to Sperm DNA Damage.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Oxidative Stress and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Male Infertility: A Narrative Review of Diagnostic Value and Clinical Integration.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Probiotics as Microbiome Modulators in Male Infertility: Rethinking Dysbiosis Across the Gut-Testis Axis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Review
- Psychological Stress and Male Infertility: Oxidative Stress as the Common Downstream Pathway.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Seminal Plasma and Extracellular Vesicles as Molecular Gatekeepers: Oxidative Stress, Endocrine Crosstalk, and Biomarker Discovery in Male Infertility.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- Association between urogenital inflammation conditions and leukocytospermia: insights from a large-scale cross-sectional study.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
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- Role of Leukocytospermia in the Management of Male Infertility: Decoding a Mystery for the Busy Clinicians.The world journal of men's health · 2025Review
- Understanding the Associations of Urogenital Microbiomes With Fertility and In Vitro Fertilization.American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) · 2025Review
- Idiopathic male infertility - what are we missing?Arab journal of urology · 2025Article
- Male accessory gland infection (MAGI): Over-diagnosed or under treated in infertile men?Arab journal of urology · 2025Review
- Mechanisms of oxidative stress-induced sperm dysfunction.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
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- Leukocytospermia does not negatively impact outcomes in in vitro fertilization cycles with intracytoplasmic sperm injection and preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy: findings from 5435 cycles.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2024Article
- The Global Andrology Forum (GAF): Structure, Roles, Functioning and Outcomes: An Online Model for Collaborative Research.The world journal of men's health · 2024Article
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- Impact of high-risk and low-risk human papillomavirus infections on the male genital tract: effects on semen inflammation and sperm quality.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Article
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46 authors at 20 institutions in 23 countries.
Rakesh SharmaAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9664-6978
Sajal GuptaAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6487-9681
Ashok AgarwalAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. agarwaa@ccf.org.ORCID 0000-0003-0585-1026
Ralf HenkelAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1128-2982
Renata FinelliAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5926-6407
Neel ParekhDepartment of Urology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6218-9254
Ramadan SalehDepartment of Dermatology, Venereology and Andrology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0003-0503-3533
Mohamed ArafaAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0107-8857
Edmund KoDepartment of Urology, Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7465-3616
Armand ZiniDepartment of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2194-5578
Nicholas TadrosDivision of Urology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2272-235X
Rupin ShahDepartment of Urology, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India.ORCID 0000-0002-7868-5949
Rafael F AmbarDepartment of Urology, Centro Universitario em Saude do ABC/Andrology Group at Ideia Fertil Institute of Human Reproduction, Santo André, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-3496-2895
Haitham ElbardisiDepartment of Urology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.ORCID 0000-0003-3902-7924
Pallav SenguptaDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Bioscience and Nursing, MAHSA University, Jenjarom, Selangor, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-1928-5048
Marlon MartinezSection of Urology, University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Manila, Philippines.ORCID 0000-0002-1191-8154
Florence BoitrelleReproductive Biology, Fertility Preservation, Andrology, CECOS, Poissy Hospital, Poissy, France.ORCID 0000-0002-5322-0141
Mara SimopoulouDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Maroussi, Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1000-9100
Paraskevi VogiatziAndromed Health & Reproduction, Fertility Diagnostics Laboratory, Maroussi, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9971-1619
Jaime GosalvezDepartamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3624-4261
Parviz KavoussiAustin Fertility and Reproductive Medicine/Westlake IVF, Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7390-5837
Hussein KandilFakih IVF Fertility Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE.ORCID 0000-0002-5549-3274
Ayad PalaniDepartment of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Garmian, Kalar, Iraq.ORCID 0000-0001-7806-9903
Marcelo Rodriguez PeñaDepartamento Docencia e Investigación, Hospital Militar Campo de Mayo, Universidad Barcelo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0003-2437-7833
Osvaldo RajmilClinical and training Centre of the European Academy of Andrology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1987-9206
Gian Maria BusettoDepartment of Urology and Renal Transplantation, University of Foggia Policlinico Riuniti of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7291-0316
Christina AnagnostopoulouIVF Clinic "Akeso-Embryo ART", Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0999-6484
Sava MicicDepartment of Andrology, Uromedica Polyclinic, Belgrade, Serbia.ORCID 0000-0001-9037-3318
Marco G AlvesDepartment of Anatomy & Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine (UMIB), Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-7635-783X
Lucia RoccoDepartment of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (DiSTABiF), University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6250-4798
Taymour MostafaDepartment of Andrology, Sexology & STIs, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0003-3627-0662
Juan G AlvarezCentro ANDROGEN, La Coruña, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4851-9579
Sunil JindalDepartment of Andrology and Reproductive Medicine, Jindal Hospital, Meerut, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8088-8710
Hassan N SallamDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0003-1308-6280
Israel Maldonado RosasCenterf Technological Innovation, and Reproductive Medicine (CITMER), Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-2765-6176
Sheena E M LewisExamenlab Ltd., Weavers Court Business Park, Linfield Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5665-1572
Sami AlSaidDepartment of Urology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.ORCID 0000-0002-1209-1283
Mesut AltanDepartment of Urology, Haceppete University, Ankara, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0001-8884-9954
Hyun Jun ParkDepartment of Urology, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-0566-9574
Jonathan RamsayDepartment of Andrology, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2403-7698
Sijo ParekattilAvant Concierge Urology & University of Central Florida, Winter Garden, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6847-8826
Marjan SabbaghianDepartment of Andrology, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-9439-268X
Kelton TremellenDepartment of Obstetrics Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5575-6049
Kareim KhalafallaDepartment of Urology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.ORCID 0000-0001-9476-4869
Damayanthi DurairajanayagamDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Selangor, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0001-9049-0215
Giovanni M ColpiAndrology and IVF Unit, Procrea Institute, Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1431-1777
Cleveland Clinic · USHamad Medical Corporation · QAAlexandria University · EGAnkara University · TRCairo University · EGFaculdade de Medicina do ABC · BRFlinders University · AUHammersmith Hospital · GBHarvard University · USHospital de Sant Pau · ESIVI Middle East Fertility Clinic · AEKurdistan Regional Government · IQLETO Maternity Hospital · GRLilavati Hospital & Research Centre · INLoma Linda University · USMahsa University · MYMcGill University · CAMusgrave Park Hospital · GBNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRPusan National University Hospital · KR
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Abstract
The current WHO 2010 manual for human semen analysis defines leukocytospermia as the presence of peroxidase-positive leukocytes at a concentration >1×10
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