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Treatment of varicoceles with detachable balloon embolization. 1983

P E Adams

Testicular varicocele is the single most common cause of male infertility. Varicoceles are due to either absent or nonfunctioning valves that permit retrograde flow in the internal spermatic vein resulting in increased temperature within the scrotum and interfering with spermatogenesis. Our method to treat varicoceles is occlusion of the spermatic vein with detachable silicone balloons. In our first 70 patients, this has proven to be a safe and effective nonsurgical method of occluding varicoceles in outpatients with results similar to those of surgery.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D004621	Embolization, Therapeutic	A method of hemostasis utilizing various agents such as Gelfoam, silastic, metal, glass, or plastic pellets, autologous clot, fat, and muscle as emboli. It has been used in the treatment of spinal cord and INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS, renal arteriovenous fistulas, gastrointestinal bleeding, epistaxis, hypersplenism, certain highly vascular tumors, traumatic rupture of blood vessels, and control of operative hemorrhage.	Embolotherapy,Therapeutic Embolization,Embolizations, Therapeutic,Embolotherapies,Therapeutic Embolizations
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013737	Testis	The male gonad containing two functional parts: the SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES for the production and transport of male germ cells (SPERMATOGENESIS) and the interstitial compartment containing LEYDIG CELLS that produce ANDROGENS.	Testicles,Testes,Testicle
D014646	Varicocele	A condition characterized by the dilated tortuous veins of the SPERMATIC CORD with a marked left-sided predominance. Adverse effect on male fertility occurs when varicocele leads to an increased scrotal (and testicular) temperature and reduced testicular volume.	Varicoceles
D014680	Veins	The vessels carrying blood away from the CAPILLARY BEDS.	Vein