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Spermiophages on testicular fine needle aspiration cytology: A rare finding.
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March 2016
Department of Pathology, TN Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Macrophages usually reside in the testicular interstitial tissues and are normally not found within the seminiferous tubules. However, in certain cases of male infertility, the macrophages are activated and can then be found within the tubules where they can ingest spermatozoa and are labeled as "spermiophages." FNAC was performed in a 36 year male with history of primary infertility.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpermiophages in a giant spermatocele.
Diagn Cytopathol
November 2010
Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA.
Seminal macrophages in ejaculates from men with couple infertility.
Int J Androl
December 2009
Andrology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
Seminal macrophages are occasionally reported though their relevance in the evaluation of human ejaculate is unknown. Activated macrophages, engaging in sperm phagocytosis (spermiophages), might represent a marker of innate immunosystem activation. We investigated whether the presence of spermiophages in non-leukocytospermic ejaculates from men complaining for couple infertility is associated with altered sperm features.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMono or bilateral inflammatory postmicrobial prostato-vesciculo-epididymitis: differences in semen parameters and reactive oxygen species production.
Minerva Endocrinol
December 2006
Unit of Endocrinology, Andrology and Internal Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Garibaldi Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse possible differences in sperm characteristics (including seminal leukocyte concentration, number of spermiophagies, and sperm reactive oxygen species [ROS] production) between patients with monolateral and bilateral prostate-vesciculo-epididymitis (PVE).
Methods: Seventy-eight selected consecutively enrolled patients (mean age 34 years, range 24-40) with chronic inflammatory postmicrobial PVE and 30 infertile (aged-matched) patients (control group) with inflammatory postmicrobial prostatitis underwent sperm analysis, including seminal leukocyte concentration, number of spermiophages, and ROS production.
Results: Sperm concentration and total sperm number were significantly lower in the patients with bilateral PVE than in those with monolateral PVE.
Semen analysis in HIV seropositive men and in subjects at high risk for HIV infection.
Hum Reprod
April 1996
5th Medical Clinic, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy.
The main purpose of this research was (i) to perform a comparative study of sperm parameters in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seropositive and high risk subjects in order to identify any possible alterations in the semen which specifically result from HIV infection and (ii) to study the p24 antigen as an early diagnostic marker of infection in high risk subjects. HIV seropositive subjects showed no significant variations regarding sperm densities, motility and viscosity compared to high risk subjects and controls. On the other hand, these HIV seropositive subjects showed (a) a significantly higher percentage of cytoplasmic droplet forms and immature germ cells, perhaps caused by an early failure of epididymal function and/or by a condition of stress affecting spermatogenesis after HIV infection and (b) a significantly higher level of spermiophage cells, suggesting that HIV activates mechanisms that increase spermiophagy.
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