Erschienen in:
08.10.2018 | Research Letter
Gonadotropin replacement in male thalassemia major patients with arrested puberty and acquired hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (AAH): preliminary results and potential factors affecting induction of spermatogenesis
verfasst von:
Vincenzo De Sanctis, Ashraf T. Soliman, Duran Canatan, Salvatore Di Maio, Heba Elsedfy, Alaa Baioumi, Christos Kattamis
Erschienen in:
Endocrine
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Ausgabe 1/2019
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Although spontaneous fertility can occur in well-transfused and well-chelated patients, with β-thalassemia major (β-ΤΜ), the majority are sub fertile due to hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH), secondary to transfusional haemosiderosis [
1]. Ιn several studies, 40 to 80% of β-ΤΜ patients reported to have arrested puberty, pubertal failure, sexual dysfunction, and infertility [
1,
2]. …