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Andrologic studies and sexual potency in chronic human brucellosis

Chronische Brucellose beim Menschen: Andrologische Untersuchungen und Potenz

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A 100 male patients aged from 20 to 45 years were treated for chronic brucellosis. Sixty-eight complained of impaired sexual potency. The percentage of patients with sexual disorders increased parallel to the duration of the disease. Andrologic investigations comprised a study sexual history, physical examination of the external sexual organs, examination of the seminal fluid and in a few cases biopsy of testes material. Impaired sexual potency was mostly associated with changes in the gonads and in the seminal fluid. In some cases, however, decreased sexual potency appeared without any visible involvment of the genital organs. The pathogenesis of the changes in the genital organs and in semen in relation to age and sexual potency are discussed.

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Hundert männliche Patienten im Alter von 20 bis 45 Jahren wurden wegen Brucellose behandelt. 68 von ihnen klagten über Potenzstörungen. Der Anteil von Patienten mit sexuellen Störungen nahm parallel mit der Dauer der Erkrankung zu. Die andrologischen Untersuchungen umfaßten: Sexualanamnese, klinische Untersuchung der äußeren Sexualorgane, Untersuchung der Samenflüssigkeit und — in einigen Fällen — Hodenbiopsie. Eine gestörte Potenz war meistens mit Änderungen an Gonaden und in der Samenflüssigkeit verbunden. In manchen Fällen trat die verminderte Potenz jedoch ohne irgendwelche sichtbare Beteiligung der Genitalorgane auf. Die Pathogenese der Veränderungen an den Genitalorganen und in der Samenflüssigkeit und ihre Beziehung zu Alter und Potenz werden diskutiert.

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Kassur, B., Dziubek, Z. Andrologic studies and sexual potency in chronic human brucellosis. Infection 8, 94–97 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01641469

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