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Rev Ciencias Médicas 2016; 20 (5)

Treatment of male infertility with catgut implantation using acupuncture

Ramos PK, Baños HI, Armas AI

Language: Spanish
References: 20
Page: 555-562
PDF size: 357.14 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction: infertility is a contemporary and complex health problem. Male factor is involved in about 50% of infertile couples, by single or by shared causes.
Objective: to assess the effect of catgut implantation using acupuncture in male infertility.
Method: an experimental study was conducted in the service of Natural and Traditional Medicine at "Abel Santamaria Cuadrado" Teaching General Hospital in Pinar del Rio, Cuba during 2015, with 109 infertile patients who met the projected inclusion criteria. They were treated with catgut implantation at certain acupuncture points, assessing them with espermiogramsevery months. For the categorization of variables: the improving of seminal parameters, required time, idiopathic and postsurgical infertility, chi square test with a significance level of 95% was performed.
Results: patients were predominantly between 30 and 39 years old. More than the half of the patients studied presented alcohol intake in some extent, 19.3% smoked and 24.8% were exposed to pesticides. No adverse reactions appeared in any of the 109 patients under treatment and most of them (78.9%), modified the sperm values positively, requiring an average of treatment between 4 and 6 months respectively.
Conclusions: the treatment proposed for patients with idiopathic infertility or after surgical treatments of varicocele is a simple, inexpensive and non-invasive therapeutic modality, which favorably modifies the parameters of semen. The effectiveness of this technique in male infertility should continue its investigation in the future.


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