Varicocele: relation between anoxia and hypospermatogenesis.

Three groups of patients were analysed: varicocele patients with abnormal seminal fluid (17 cases), variococele and normal sperm (seven cases) and normal males (17 cases). Blood gas was secured in the internal spermatic vein, perpheric vein and femural artery, in an attempt to evaluate the possibility of altered gas content as a cause of spermatogenic depression. No statistical differences were found when we compared the three groups. We concluded that anoxia was not the cause of hypospermatogenesis in varicocele patients.