Does Varicocele Repair Improve Conventional Semen Parameters? A Meta-Analytic Study of Before-After Data-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Does Varicocele Repair Improve Conventional Semen Parameters? A Meta-Analytic Study of Before-After Data

Published:2024 Issue:1 Volume:42 Page:92
ISSN:2287-4208
Container-title:The World Journal of Men's Health
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Short-container-title:World J Mens Health

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Cannarella Rossella¹²^ORCID,Shah Rupin³^ORCID,Hamoda Taha Abo-Almagd Abdel-Meguid⁴⁵^ORCID,Boitrelle Florence⁶⁷^ORCID,Saleh Ramadan⁸^ORCID,Gul Murat⁹^ORCID,Rambhatla Amarnath¹⁰^ORCID,Kavoussi Parviz¹¹^ORCID,Toprak Tuncay¹²^ORCID,Harraz Ahmed M.¹³¹⁴¹⁵^ORCID,Ko Edmund¹⁶^ORCID,Çeker Gökhan¹⁷^ORCID,Durairajanayagam Damayanthi¹⁸^ORCID,Alkahidi Noora¹⁹^ORCID,Kuroda Shinnosuke²²⁰^ORCID,Crafa Andrea¹^ORCID,Henkel Ralf²¹²²^ORCID,Salvio Gianmaria²³^ORCID,Hazir Berk²⁴^ORCID,Darbandi Mahsa²⁵²⁶^ORCID,Bendayan Marion⁶⁷^ORCID,Darbandi Sara²⁵²⁶^ORCID,Falcone Marco²⁷^ORCID,Garrido Nicolas²⁸^ORCID,Kosgi Raghavender²⁹^ORCID,Sawaid Kaiyal Raneen²^ORCID,Karna Keshab³⁰^ORCID,Phuoc Nguyen Ho Vinh³¹³²^ORCID,Birowo Ponco³³^ORCID,Colpi Giovanni M.³⁴^ORCID,de la Rosette Jean³⁵^ORCID,Pinggera Germar-Michael³⁶^ORCID,Nguyen Quang³⁷³⁸^ORCID,Zini Armand³⁹^ORCID,Zohdy Wael⁴⁰^ORCID,Singh Rajender⁴¹^ORCID,Saini Pallavi⁴²^ORCID,Glina Sidney⁴³^ORCID,Lin Haocheng⁴⁴^ORCID,Mostafa Taymour⁴⁰^ORCID,Rojas-Cruz Cesar⁴⁵^ORCID,Arafa Mohamed⁴⁰⁴⁶⁴⁷⁴⁸^ORCID,Calogero Aldo E.¹^ORCID,Dimitriadis Fotios⁴⁹^ORCID,Kothari Priyank⁵⁰^ORCID,Karthikeyan Vilvapathy Senguttuvan⁵¹^ORCID,Okada Keisuke⁵²^ORCID,Chiba Koji⁵²^ORCID,Kadıoglu Ates⁵³^ORCID,Altay Baris⁵⁴^ORCID,Turunc Tahsin⁵⁵^ORCID,Zilaitiene Birute⁵⁶^ORCID,Gokalp Fatih⁵⁷^ORCID,Adamyan Aram⁵⁸^ORCID,Katz Darren⁵⁹⁶⁰⁶¹^ORCID,Chung Eric⁶²^ORCID,Mierzwa Tiago Cesar⁴³^ORCID,Zylbersztejn Daniel Suslik⁶³^ORCID,Paul Gustavo Marquesine⁶⁴^ORCID,Sofikitis Nikolaos⁶⁵^ORCID,Sokolakis Ioannis⁶⁶^ORCID,Malhotra Vineet⁶⁷^ORCID,Brodjonegoro Sakti Ronggowardhana⁶⁸^ORCID,Adriansjah Ricky⁶⁹^ORCID,Tsujimura Akira⁷⁰^ORCID,Amano Toshiyasu⁷¹^ORCID,Balercia Giancarlo²³^ORCID,Ziouziou Imad⁷²^ORCID,Deswanto Isaac Ardianson⁷³^ORCID,Martinez Marlon⁷⁴^ORCID,Park Hyun Jun⁷⁵⁷⁶^ORCID,Bakırcıoglu Mustafa Emre⁷⁷^ORCID,Ceyhan Erman⁷⁸^ORCID,Aydos Kaan⁷⁹^ORCID,Ramsay Jonathan⁸⁰^ORCID,Minhas Suks⁸¹^ORCID,Al Hashimi Manaf⁸²⁸³^ORCID,Ghayda Ramy Abou⁸⁴^ORCID,Tadros Nicholas⁸⁵^ORCID,Sindhwani Puneet⁸⁶^ORCID,Ho Christopher C.K.⁸⁷^ORCID,Rachman Rinaldo Indra³³^ORCID,Rodriguez Pena Marcelo⁸⁸^ORCID,Motawi Ahmad⁴⁰^ORCID,Ponnusamy Arun Karthik⁸⁹^ORCID,Dipankar Satish⁹⁰^ORCID,Amir Azwar⁹¹^ORCID,Binsaleh Saleh⁹²^ORCID,Serefoglu Ege Can⁹³^ORCID,Banthia Ravi⁹⁴^ORCID,Khalafalla Kareim⁴⁷⁹⁵⁹⁶^ORCID,Basukarno Ari⁹⁷^ORCID,Bac Nguyen Hoai⁹⁸^ORCID,Singla Karun⁹⁹^ORCID,Ambar Rafael F.⁴³¹⁰⁰^ORCID,Makarounis Konstantinos¹⁰¹^ORCID,Priyadarshi Shivam¹⁰²^ORCID,Duarsa Gede Wirya Kusuma¹⁰³^ORCID,Atmoko Widi³³^ORCID,Jindal Sunil¹⁰⁴^ORCID,Arianto Eko¹⁰⁵^ORCID,Akhavizadegan Hamed¹⁰⁶^ORCID,El Bardisi Haitham⁴⁷⁴⁸^ORCID,Shoshany Ohad¹⁰⁷^ORCID,Busetto Gian Maria¹⁰⁸^ORCID,Moussa Mohamad¹⁰⁹^ORCID,Jamali Mounir¹¹⁰^ORCID,Al-Marhoon Mohamed S.¹¹¹^ORCID,Ruzaev Mikhail¹¹²^ORCID,Farsi Hasan M. A.⁴^ORCID,Mutambirwa Shingai¹¹³^ORCID,Lee Dong Sup¹¹⁴^ORCID,Kulaksiz Deniz¹¹⁵^ORCID,Cheng Yu-Sheng¹¹⁶^ORCID,Bouzouita Abderrazak¹¹⁷^ORCID,Sarikaya Selcuk¹¹⁸^ORCID,Kandil Hussein¹¹⁹^ORCID,Tsampoukas Georgios¹²⁰^ORCID,Farkouh Ala’a¹²¹^ORCID,Bowa Kasonde¹²²^ORCID,Savira Missy³³^ORCID,Mogharabian Nasser¹²³^ORCID,Le Tan V.³¹³²^ORCID,Harjanggi Maruto¹²⁴^ORCID,Anh Dang Tuan¹²⁵^ORCID,Long Tran Quang Tien¹²⁶^ORCID,Soebadi Mohammad Ayodhia¹²⁷^ORCID,Hakim Lukman¹²⁸^ORCID,Tanic Marko¹²⁹^ORCID,Ari Umut Cagin¹³⁰^ORCID,Parikh Firuza R.¹³¹^ORCID,Calik Gokhan³⁵^ORCID,KV Vinod¹³²^ORCID,Dorji Gyem¹³³^ORCID,Rezano Andri¹³⁴¹³⁵^ORCID,Rajmil Osvaldo¹³⁶^ORCID,Tien Dung Mai Ba³¹^ORCID,Yuan Yiming⁴⁴^ORCID,Lizarraga-Salas Juan Francisco¹³⁷^ORCID,Eze Balantine¹³⁸^ORCID,Ngoo Kay Seong¹³⁹^ORCID,Lee Joe¹⁴⁰^ORCID,Arslan Umut¹²^ORCID,Agarwal Ashok¹²²¹⁴¹^ORCID,

Affiliation:

1. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.

2. Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.

3. Department of Urology, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India.

4. Department of Urology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

5. Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt.

6. Department of Reproductive Biology, Fertility Preservation, Andrology, CECOS, Poissy Hospital, Poissy, France.

7. Department of Biology, Reproduction, Epigenetics, Environment and Development, Paris Saclay University, UVSQ, INRAE, BREED, Jouy-en-Josas, France.

8. Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Andrology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt.

9. Department of Urology, Selcuk University School of Medicine, Konya, Turkey.

10. Department of Urology, Henry Ford Health System, Vattikuti Urology Institute, Detroit, MI, USA.

11. Department of Reproductive Urology, Austin Fertility & Reproductive Medicine/Westlake IVF, Austin, TX, USA.

12. Department of Urology, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey.

13. Urology and Nephrology Center, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

14. Department of Surgery, Urology Unit, Farwaniya Hospital, Farwaniya, Kuwait.

15. Department of Urology, Sabah Al Ahmad Urology Center, Kuwait City, Kuwait.

16. Department of Urology, Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA, USA.

17. Department of Urology, Başakşehir Cam and Sakura City Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

18. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Selangor, Malaysia.

19. Department of Internal Medicine, Trinity Health/Mercy Health, Muskegon, MI, USA.

20. Department of Urology, Reproduction Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.

21. Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, UK.

22. Department of Medical Bioscience, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.

23. Department of Endocrinology, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy.

24. Reproductive Medicine, Clinical Research Centre, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.

25. Fetal Health Research Center, Hope Generation Foundation, Tehran, Iran.

26. Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Research Center, Hope Generation Foundation, Tehran, Iran.

27. Department of Urology, Molinette Hospital, A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza, University of Turin, Torino, Italy.

28. IVIRMA Global Research Alliance, IVI Foundation, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe (IIS La Fe), Valencia, Spain.

29. Department of Urology, Andrology and Renal Transplant, AIG Hospitals, Hyderabad, India.

30. Department of Molecular Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.

31. Department of Andrology, Binh Dan Hospital, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.

32. Department of Urology and Andrology, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.

33. Department of Urology, Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.

34. Andrology and IVF Center, Next Fertility Procrea, Lugano, Switzerland.

35. Department of Urology, Istanbul Medipol Mega University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

36. Department of Urology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.

37. Center for Andrology and Sexual Medicine, Viet Duc University Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam.

38. Department of Urology, Andrology and Sexual Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam.

39. Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

40. Department of Andrology, Sexology & STIs, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

41. Central Drug Research Institute, Male Reproductive Health Research Laboratory, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

42. Division of Endocrinology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India.

43. Division of Urology, Centro Universitario FMABC, Santo André, Brazil.

44. Department of Urology, Peking University Third Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China.

45. Department of Urology, University Hospital of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.

46. American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.

47. Department of Urology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.

48. Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical-Qatar, Doha, Qatar.

49. Department of Urology, Aristotle University School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece.

50. Department of Urology, Topiwala National Medical College, B.Y.L Nair Ch Hospital, Mumbai, India.

51. Andrology Unit, Department of Urology, Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai, India.

52. Department of Urology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.

53. Department of Urology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.

54. Department of Urology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

55. Urocentre Urology Clinic, Adana, Turkey.

56. Institute of Endocrinology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, Turkey.

57. Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya, Hatay, Turkey.

58. Department of Urology, Astghik Medical Center, Yerevan, Armenia.

59. Men’s Health Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

60. Department of Surgery, Western Precinct, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

61. Department of Urology, Western Health, Victoria, Australia.

62. Department of Urology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

63. Fleury Group and Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.

64. Department of Clinical Surgery, Health Sciences Sector of the Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.

65. Department of Urology, Ioannina University School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece.

66. 2nd Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

67. SCM Clinic and Hospital, New Delhi, India.

68. Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Prof. Dr. Sardjito Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

69. Department of Urology, Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Medical Faculty of Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia.

70. Department of Urology, Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital, Chiba, Japan.

71. Department of Urology, Nagano Red Cross Hospital, Nagano, Japan.

72. Department of Urology, College of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco.

73. Elang Medika Corpora Hospital, Tangerang, Indonesia.

74. Section of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Manila, Philippines.

75. Department of Urology, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea.

76. Medical Research Institute of Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea.

77. SENSART Clinic, Istanbul, Turkey.

78. Department of Urology, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.

79. Department of Urology, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.

80. Department of Andrology, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial, London, UK.

81. Department of Urology, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK.

82. Department of Urology, Burjeel Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

83. Clinical Urology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

84. Institute of Urology, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

85. Division of Urology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA.

86. Department of Urology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA.

87. Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

88. Instituto de Ginecología y Fertilidad (IFER) y Universidad Barcelo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

89. AndroOne Men’s Health Clinic, Salem, India.

90. Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Mangalagiri, Mangalagiri, India.

91. Department of Urology, Dr Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital, Makassar, Indonesia.

92. Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

93. Department of Urology, Biruni University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.

94. Department of Urology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.

95. Urology Department, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA.

96. Department of Urology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

97. Department of Urology, Dr. Dradjat Hospital, Serang, Indonesia.

98. Department of Andrology and Sexual Medicine, Hanoi Medical University’s Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam.

99. Clarity Health, Chandigarh, India.

100. Andrology Department at Ideia Fertil Institute, Santo Andre, São Paulo, Brazil.

101. Department of Urology and Andrology, Locus Medicus, Athens, Greece.

102. Department of Urology, Sawai Man Singh Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

103. Department of Urology, Prof. Dr. I.G.N.G Ngoerah General Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Udayana, Bali, Indonesia.

104. Department of Andrology & Reproductive Medicine, Jindal Hospital & Fertility Center, Meerut, India.

105. Department of Urology, Prof R.D. Kandou Hospital, Manado, Indonesia.

106. Urology Department, Tehran University of Medical Scienes, Tehran, Iran.

107. Department of Urology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

108. Department of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Univeristy of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.

109. Department of Urology, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.

110. Department of Urology, Military Teaching Hospital, Rabat, Morocco.

111. Department of Surgery, Urology Division, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.

112. Urology Clinic, Moscow, Russia.

113. Department of Urology, Dr. George Mukhari Academic Hospital, Sefako Makgatho Health Science University, Medunsa, Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa.

114. Department of Urology, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

115. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Health Sciences, Kanuni Training and Research Hospital, Trabzon, Turkey.

116. Department of Urology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

117. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty Tunis Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.

118. Department of Urology, Gulhane Research and Training Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey.

119. Fakih IVF Fertility Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

120. Department of Urology, Oxford University Hospital, Oxford, UK.

121. Global Andrology Forum, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.

122. Department of Urology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia.

123. Sexual Health and Fertility Research Center, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran.

124. IVF Jakarta - YPK Mandiri, Jakarta, Indonesia.

125. Tam Anh IVF Center, Tam Anh General Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam.

126. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hanoi Obstetric and Gynecology Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam.

127. Department of Urology, Soetomo Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia.

128. Department of Urology, Universitas Airlangga Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia.

129. Department of Urology, General Hospital, Cuprija, Serbia.

130. Department of Reproduction and Artificial Insemination, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey.

131. FertilTree-Jaslok International Fertility Centre, Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

132. Cure & SK Hospital, Trivandrum, India.

133. Department of Anatomy, Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan, Thimphu, Bhutan.

134. Andrology Study Program, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.

135. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, West Java, Indonesia.

136. Department of Andrology, Fundacio Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain.

137. Instituto de Ciencias en Reproducción Humana Vida, León, Mexico.

138. Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria.

139. Urology Unit, Department of Surgery, Hospital Angkatan Tentera Tuanku Mizan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

140. Department of Urology, National University Hospital, Singapore.

141. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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Pharmacology (medical),Urology,Psychiatry and Mental health,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health Policy,Aging,Reproductive Medicine

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