D-Tryptophan-6-luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone in the treatment of normogonadotropic oligoasthenozoospermia.

D-Tryptophan-6-LH-RH was assessed in the treatment of patients with normogonadotropic oligoasthenozoospermia in 18 subjects selected on the basis of at least 3 spermiograms, long standing infertility, normal LH, FSH, prolactin and testosterone serum levels and lack of evidence of any other pathologic involvement. Testicular biopsies performed on these patients showed hypospermatogenesis with foci of alteration at the spermatid stage in some of them. D-Trp-6-LH-RH was administered im for 90 days at a dose of 5 micrograms every 2 days, 10 micrograms daily or 10 micrograms every 2 days.

Pentoxifylline (BL 191) by oral administration in the treatment of asthenozoospermia.

The aim of this trial was to study the effects on semen of pentoxifylline administered chronically per os to patients with normogonadotropic asthenozoospermia. Fifteen infertile men (age 22 to 44 years) were incorporated. Each subject was submitted to a treatment with pentoxifylline per os at a dose of 1,200 mg per day during no less than four months (x plus or minus SE 6.

Effect of the phosphodiesterase inhibitor Pentoxyfylline on human sperm motility.

Tyrode fluid and Tyrode fluid plus Pentoxifylline were individually added to aliquots of semen samples obtained from 6 normal men and 6 infertile patients considered to have idiopathic normogonadotropic oligoasthenozoospermia. Pentoxifylline was added to final concentrations of 0.15, 0.

D-leucine-6-luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone ethylamide in the treatment of normogonadotropic oligoasthenospermia.

The effectiveness of D-leucine-6-luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone ethylamide (D-Leu-6-LH-RH-EA) in the treatment of idiopathic normogonadotropic oligoasthenospermia was assessed in 17 patients selected on the basis of at least three previous sperm counts; a history of long-standing infertility; normal serum levels of luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, and testosterone; and lack of any evidence of other pathologic involvement. On testicular biopsy all patients showed hypospermatogenesis or arrest at the spermatid stage with the exception of two with more severe disorders. D-Leu-6-LH-RH-EA- was administered intramuscularly for 90 days at a daily dose of 5 microgram (four patients), 10 microgram (four patients), 20 microgram (five patients), and 200 microgram (four patients).