New York doctors report, the youth period of varicocele resection seems to retain the fertility and testicular growth. Columbia University's Grasberg (Kenneth I. Glassberg) and colleagues in December, "Pediatrics" magazine (Pediatrics 2004; 114:1631-1633,1669-1670) published a paper explaining that if delays of varicocele To adult rehabilitation, may lead to infertility. Carry out this operation only about half of the patients were able to restore fertility, and in adulthood are usually carried out this operation will not be reversed testicular atrophy. The author to say that the past 10 years the young people of varicocele resection of the more than in the past, however, on which patients should be treated no consensus on the patient's ability to bear children after the lack of long-term follow-up study. Therefore, the Grasberg and colleagues of 43 patients were followed up by an average of nine years, when these patients are in young people (average age 15) to treatment. 11 testicle size in a significant difference between the patients, nine people have to catch up with the growth of the other two patients two smaller testes, a bilateral resection of varicocele, after surgery have moderate growth. 18 want to be the father of patients within a year were successful. "We believe that the youth period of varicocele resection of the worst when the patient has not hurt, the best time to retain the fertility and testicular growth," the group wrote. "Inspection to find young men of varicocele should be paediatric conventional content", George Washington University doctors in the pediatric urology comment that "after the discovery of infants should immediately submitted to the pediatric urologist, to the extent possible, Objective testing and treatment. "
