Disease spectrum and treatment patterns in a local XXXX clinic.

@entity1 @entity249 @entity4810 @entity409 @entity854 @entity12108 @entity3893 @entity20436
UNASSIGNED: OBJECTIVE. To review disease spectrum and treatment patterns in a local @entity4810 clinic. DESIGN. Case series. SETTING. @entity4810 clinic in a teaching hospital in Hong Kong. @entity1 . @entity1 who were seen as new cases in a local @entity4810 clinic between January 2008 and December 2012. INTERVENTION. Infertility assessment and counselling on treatment options. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES. Disease spectrum and treatment patterns. RESULTS. A total of 387 new @entity1 were assessed in the @entity4810 clinic. The mean age of the @entity1 and their female partners was 37.2 and 32.1 years, respectively. The median duration of @entity249 was 3 years. Among the @entity1 , 36.2% had @entity3893 , 8.0% had @entity12108 , and 48.3% of @entity1 had other @entity854 . The commonest causes of @entity4810 were unknown (idiopathic), clinically significant varicoceles, @entity12108 , @entity20436 after puberty, and erectile or @entity409 . Overall, 66.1% of @entity1 chose assisted reproductive treatment and 12.4% of @entity1 preferred surgical correction of reversible @entity4810 conditions. Altogether 36.7% of @entity1 required either surgical sperm retrieval or correction of @entity4810 conditions. CONCLUSIONS. The present study provided important local data on the disease spectrum and treatment patterns in a @entity4810 clinic. The incidences of @entity3893 and @entity12108 were much higher than those reported in the contemporary literature. A significant proportion of @entity1 required either surgical sperm retrieval or correction of reversible @entity4810 conditions.
