Empirical medical therapy for idiopathic male infertility.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if there has been a change in empirical medical therapy (EMT) practices since a 2010 American Urological Association survey reported that 25% of urologists treated infertile men who were pursuing a pregnancy with testosterone (T).

Design

Survey-based cohort study of AUA members.

Setting

Practice patterns were evaluated of urologists in academic and nonacademic hospital centers.

Patients

Practice patterns were evaluated in the treatment of men with idiopathic infertility.

Interventionss

None.

Main outcome measures

Subgroup analysis by means of univariate analysis between means (Fisher exact test) and descriptive proportions was used to compare male infertility fellowship-trained urologists (RUs) to general urologists (non-RUs

SUBMITTER: Thaker H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8244321 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature