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ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Decoding the Puzzle of Male Infertility: The Role of Infection, Inflammation, and Autoimmunity.

Romualdo Sciorio, Lina De Paola, Tiziana Notari, Silvia Ganduscio, Patrizia Amato, Laura Crifasi, Daniela Marotto, Valentina Billone, Gaspare Cucinella, Antonio Perino and 3 more

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Review in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

13 authors.

Romualdo SciorioFertility Medicine and Gynecological Endocrinology Unit, Department Woman Mother Child, Lausanne University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-7698-8823
Lina De PaolaDepartment of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0009-0001-4631-1061
Tiziana NotariCheck-Up Poly-Diagnostic and Research Laboratory, Andrology Unit, 84131 Salerno, Italy.
Silvia GanduscioDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IVF UNIT-AOOR Villa Sofia-Cervello, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Patrizia AmatoRheumatology Unit, ASL Salerno, 60th District, 84124 Salerno, Italy.
Laura CrifasiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IVF UNIT-AOOR Villa Sofia-Cervello, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Daniela MarottoRheumatology Unit, ASL Gallura, 07026 Olbia, Italy.
Valentina BilloneDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IVF UNIT-AOOR Villa Sofia-Cervello, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Gaspare CucinellaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IVF UNIT-AOOR Villa Sofia-Cervello, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Antonio PerinoDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IVF UNIT-AOOR Villa Sofia-Cervello, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Luca TramontanoDépartement de Gynécologie-Obstétrique, Réseau Hospitalier Neuchâtelois, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8654-3123
Susanna MarinelliSchool of Law, Polytechnic University of Marche, 60121 Ancona, Italy.
Giuseppe GulloDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IVF UNIT-AOOR Villa Sofia-Cervello, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4269-4269

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

antisperm antibodiesepididymitisinfectioninflammationmale infertilityoxidative stresssperm quality

Identifiers

PMID40075794
PMCPMC11899667

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