[Current methods of the treatment of varicocele]

The results of complex examination and treatment of 172 patients with varicocele are presented. Roentgenoendovascular occlusion of the testicular vein was performed in 52 patients with the positive result in 43 of them. The disease recurrence was revealed in control examination 6 mos later in 9 patients. A new microsurgical operation of creating the double spermatico-venous++ anastomosis, which permits to accomplish the more complete correction of venous hemodynamics in the system of the testicular vein, to reduce the traumatism of the operation, to improve the conditions for normalization of spermatogenesis, is suggested. A recurrence of varicocele after its treatment by means of the microsurgical correction occurred in 1 patient. Of the 56 women, whose husbands suffered from infertility, after microsurgical operations performed for varicocele, the pregnancy resulted in 19.