Open AccessSemen Quality and Ferritin and Transferrin Seminal Levels
Author(s) -
Gilmar Pereira Silva,
Vítor Pereira Xavier Grangeiro,
Fabiana Pirani Carneiro
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
folia medica/folia medica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.245
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1314-2143
pISSN - 0204-8043
DOI - 10.2478/folmed-2018-0044
Subject(s) - transferrin , medicine , semen , hemodialysis , ferritin , infertility , male infertility , physiology , endocrinology , andrology , biology , pregnancy , genetics
Background: We proposed to investigate the possible relationship between seminal quality and ferritin and transferrin seminal levels in chronic hemodialysis (CH) patients. Materials and methods: This is a cross-sectional study in a group of 60 men (case) undergoing CH for more than 6 months, and a group of 30 healthy men (control), aged 18-60 years, without clinical or laboratory signs of infection/inflammation and eugonadic. A spermogram was performed by manual method and measured the ferritn and transferrin seminal levels. Results: The case and control groups were age-matched (49.47±5.56 versus 47.90±6.22, p = 0.229). Comparison between case and control group, the exception of seminal ferritin levels that were similar (p = 0.136), were significantly lower in the case group (p 0.05); but there was an association between seminal transferrin and seminal parameters (p<0.001). Conclusions: Our results suggest that seminal quality is related to seminal transferrin level and not with seminal ferritin level being useful in the initial evaluation of chronic hemodialysis patients with clinical suspicion of sub / infertility.