The Pattern of Seminal Fluid Analysis among Male Partners Attending an Infertility Clinic in a Nigerian Tertiary Health Institution

• 作者: Abubakar Abubakar Panti Amina Gambo Umar Daniel Chukunyere Nnadi Jamila Abubakar Garba Marcus Mbakwe Yakubu Ahmed
• 来源期刊: 妇产科期刊(英文)
• 学科: 数学
• 关键词: Seminal Fluid Analysis OLIGOSPERMIA Infertility Clinic Oligoasthenoteratozospermia
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（7）
• 页码范围: 957-967
• 页数: 11页
• 分类号: O17

摘要

<strong>Background: </strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Semen analysis has remained an objective, inexpensive and readil</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">y available means of assessing male factor infertility. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Aim and Objective: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">This study aims to determine the prevalence of male infertility, the type</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">s and</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> semen quality among infertile couples attending infertility clinic at UDUTH, Sokoto. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Materials and Method:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> This is a retrospective study carried out bet</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ween January, 2012 to December, 2016. All case notes of infertile pat</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ients </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">managed were retrieved The data obtained was analysed using SPSS version 20 </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">and the results were presented in text, tables and charts. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Eight hundred and seventy-six out of 11,938 total gynaecological consultations over the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">study period were due to infertility, giving a prevalence of 7.3%. Among the</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">m, 34.4% (320) accounted for male factor infertility. The age ranged between 22 to 75 years with a mean of 37.44 years ± 7.44. Majority, 50.2% were within the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ages of 35 - 44 years and up to 73.8% of them had at least secondary education</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> and were mostly, 39.7% civil servants. Up to 75.4% had sperm abnormalities, among which 65% (196/301) had primary infertility while,