[Use of midodrine and frozen semen to treat semen transport disturbances. Report of 2 cases]

Rev Med Chil. 2000 Jan;128(1):93-7.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Retrograde ejaculation severely compromises male fertility. The use of sympathicomimetics for the treatment of this condition has poor results, except in patients with partial retrograde ejaculation, whose semen has a higher spermatozoa concentration. The semen of two patients with partial retrograde ejaculation was collected and frozen after the injection of a sympathicomimetic (Midodrine). The frozen/thawed samples were mixed with fresh semen recently ejaculated to obtain a minimal number of motile spermatozoa, and used for intrauterine insemination (> de 1 x 10(6) motile spermatozoa/ml). In both cases, pregnancies that developed satisfactorily, were obtained.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Ejaculation* / physiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infertility, Male / drug therapy*
  • Infertility, Male / etiology
  • Insemination, Artificial, Homologous / methods*
  • Male
  • Midodrine / therapeutic use*
  • Semen Preservation / methods*
  • Sperm Motility / drug effects
  • Sperm Transport* / physiology
  • Sympathomimetics / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Sympathomimetics
  • Midodrine