The Nature of Disorders in Reproductive System in Unilateral Cryptorchidism

Abstract

The objective of the research: assessment of the condition of the reproductive system in patients with unilateral cryptorchidism. Children and teenage boys with unilateral cryptorchidism before surgical treatment, young adult men with surgically treated in childhood unilateral cryptorchidism were used as the material for the study. Results obtained show the depression in the circulating blood volume in afflicted testis in all the patients, the presence of prostate gland and spermatocysts pathology in both teenage boys with unilateral cryptorchidism and in males in long-term period after surgical treatment, minimal changes of gonadostat as well as the absence of antisperm autoimmune process in catamnesis in men after pull-through operation of testis. Unilateral cryptorchidism is characterized by parenchymal lesion of undescended testis, disorders in bloodstream in the testis and pathology of prostate-vesicular unit. In long-term period the changes of ejaculate are noted. These findings should be considered in prognosis for fertility decrease in unilateral cryptorchidism

Keywords

• reproductive system in cryptorchidism