The Role of Microsurgery in Surgical Treatment of Varicocele.

• Sponsor: Medical University of Warsaw (Other)
• Overall Status: Unknown status
• CT.gov ID: NCT02722187
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 60
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Duration (Months): 51
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 1.2

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This study is to set the place of microsurgery in surgical treatment od varicocele in infertile male. Fourty patients will undergo microsurgical subinguinal varicocelectomy while the control group consisting of 20 patients wil undergo laparoscopic varicocelectomy.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Varicocele; Infertility	Procedure: subinguinal microscopic varicocelectomy; Procedure: laparoscopic varicocelectomy	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Anticipated Enrollment: 60 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single (Participant)
• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Official Title: The Role of Microsurgery in Surgical Treatment of Varicocele.
• Study Start Date: Apr 1, 2015
• Anticipated Primary Completion Date: Jul 1, 2019
• Anticipated Study Completion Date: Jul 1, 2019

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: microsurgery 40 patients will undergo subinguinal microscopic varicocelectomy	Procedure: subinguinal microscopic varicocelectomy
Active Comparator: laparoscopy 20 patients will undergo laparoscopic varicocelectomy	Procedure: laparoscopic varicocelectomy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. pregnancy rate after the intervention [one yaer after the intervention]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: Male
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• clinical varicocele

• infertility duration of min one year

• poor semen quality

• otherwise unexplained infertility in the couple

Exclusion Criteria:

• female infertility

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Chair and Department of Urology Warsaw Medical University.	Warsaw		Poland	02-005

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Medical University of Warsaw

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Medical University of Warsaw
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02722187
• Other Study ID Numbers: microvl/2015
• First Posted: Mar 29, 2016
• Last Update Posted: Mar 5, 2019
• Last Verified: Mar 1, 2019

• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Infertility; Varicocele

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Mar 5, 2019