Volume 16, Issue 2 (March 2014) 16, 270–273; 10.4103/1008-682X.122343
More attention should be paid to the treatment of male infertility with drugs—testosterone: to use it or not?
Hong-Jun Li
Urological Department of the Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Correspondence: Correspondence: Prof. HJ Li
07 January 2014
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'Testosterone replacement is strictly contraindicated for the treatment of male infertility’ was the advanced view from the ‘2013 European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines on male infertility’, and this view brings extensive concern and questions. Although sufficient numbers of well-performed and controlled clinical trials that provide evidence supporting drug treatment of male infertility are not available at present, the opportunity to prove that these drugs are eff ective should not be prevented, and rigorous examination of drug therapy should be encouraged and strengthened. Th erefore, I believe the above conclusion in the EAU guidelines is poorly conceived.
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