May antioxidant therapy improve sperm parameters of men with persistent oligospermia after retrograde embolization for varicocele?

World Journal of Urology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 97-102

  Paradiso Galatioto, Giuseppe ^a   Gravina, Giovanni Luca ^a   Angelozzi, Giovanni ^a   Sacchetti, Antonia ^b   Innominato, Pier Ferdinando ^c   Pace, Gianna ^a   Ranieri, Guido ^a   Vicentini, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Fertility; Infertility; Micronutrients; N acetylcysteine (NAC); Oxidative stress; Reactive oxygen species (ROS); Spermatogenesis; Varicocele; Vitamins

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOZOON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE;

EID: 39349090983     PISSN: 07244983     EISSN: 14338726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-007-0218-z     Document Type: Article

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