[Spermatogenesis in varicoceles after correction of the blood supply to the testis]

By means of light microscopy methods in experiments performed in 60 white rats with modelled venous congestion in the left testis and in 113 men suffering from varicocele of the 2d-3d degree complicated with certain disorders of fertility, the effect of blood correction has been studied in the gonads by switching off the caudal (inferior) epigastric vein. The experimental correction of the blood stream in the testes, according to the data of quantitative estimations, contributes to spermatogenesis. Corresponding positive results, while studying spermograms, are obtained in patients suffering from varicocele complicated with infertility. Application of this operation is expedient when conservative therapy as varicocele is uneffective.