Interactive effect of semen and cervical mucus quality on postcoital test outcome: analysis from an andrological point of view
| العنوان: | Interactive effect of semen and cervical mucus quality on postcoital test outcome: analysis from an andrological point of view |
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| المؤلفون: | R. Romano, Stefano Necozione, Felice Francavilla, G. La Verghetta, R. Santucci, G. Bontempo, Sandro Francavilla |
| المصدر: | International Journal of Andrology. 25:236-242 |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2002. |
| سنة النشر: | 2002 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Infertility, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, medicine.medical_specialty, semen and cervical mucus quality, Urology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Semen, Semen analysis, Asthenozoospermia, Semen quality, Reproductive Techniques, fluids and secretions, parasitic diseases, medicine, Humans, Sperm-Ovum Interactions, Gynecology, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, bacterial infections and mycoses, medicine.disease, Postcoital test, Mucus, Cervical mucus, Reproductive Medicine, Cervix Mucus, Female, business, postcoital test, hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists |
| الوصف: | Summary This study analysed the relationship between semen quality and the postcoital test (PCT) outcome in 616 couples, especially focusing on the interactive effect of semen and cervical mucus quality. When PCTs performed in the presence of unfavourable mucus were excluded, a significant correlation was found between semen parameters and PCT outcome. In oligo/asthenozoospermia, 46.7% of PCT outcomes were negative, while the remaining were positive. Notably, in the presence of an optimal mucus score, 39% of PCT outcomes were good (≥7 forward motile spermatozoa/high power field). In normozoospermia, 16% of PCT were negative. A suboptimal cervical mucus quality significantly affected the PCT outcome in the presence of oligo/asthenozoospermia, but not in normozoospermia. In couples with repeated PCT, a better mucus score was associated with a significant improvement of the PCT outcome. When the outcome of two PCTs performed in the same couples with an unmodified mucus score was compared, a good consistency of the results was observed. In conclusion, the PCT can provide information in additional to that obtained from conventional semen analysis, as the interactive effect of semen/cervical mucus cannot be accurately inferred from the separate evaluation of the two members of a couple. |
| تدمد: | 1365-2605 0105-6263 |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-2605.2002.00354.x |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::925b665916f1401eca7a28e8b0c682e7 https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2605.2002.00354.x |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....925b665916f1401eca7a28e8b0c682e7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 13652605 01056263 |
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| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-2605.2002.00354.x |