Muckle-Wells Syndrome and Male Hypofertility: A Case Series

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 327-331

  Tran, Tu Anh ^a   Koné Paut, Isabelle ^a   Marie, Isabelle ^a   Ninet, Jaques ^b   Cuisset, Laurence ^c   Meinzer, Ulrich ^a  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

^c INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

Author keywords

Cryopyrinopathies; Fertility; Fever Syndromes; Interleukin 1; Muckle Wells syndrome

Indexed keywords

CANAKINUMAB; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVORCE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE SUBFERTILITY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUCKLE WELLS SYNDROME; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMIOGRAM; SUBFERTILITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AZOOSPERMIA; CARRIER PROTEINS; CRYOPYRIN-ASSOCIATED PERIODIC SYNDROMES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN-1; MALE; MUTATION; OLIGOSPERMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; TESTOSTERONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84869117632     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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