TY - JOUR ID - TI - Seminal Fluid Abnormality among Infertile Males: A Two-Center Based Study in Baghdad AU - Farah Saad Hasan, Batool Ali Ghalib Yassin PY - 2020 VL - 19 IS - 2 SP - 175 EP - JO - Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal المجلة العراقية للاختصاصات الطبية SN - 83601608 98932708 AB - ABSTRACT:BACKGROUND:Infertility is an inability to conceive naturally after one year of regular unprotected intercourse forproblems in either one partner or both causing a major cost burden for both patients and health caresystems.BJECTIVE:To measure the proportion of different types of abnormalities of seminal fluid among infertile menand to unravel the factors associated with such abnormalities.PATIENTS AND METHODS:A cross-sectional study in which a purposeful sample of 300 infertile males who attended infertilitydepartment at Al- Imamain Al- Kadhimain Teaching Hospital and Baghdad Teaching Hospitalduring the period from 1st of February to 31st of August, 2018 in Baghdad governorate-Iraq with atleast one- year infertility were included and interviewed for their demographic data and assessingtheir seminal fluid parameters. Chi-square test was used to identify the significant associationbetween categorical variables and P-value of <0.05 was considered as statistically significant.RESULTS:More than 75% of the studied group have primary infertility. Abnormal morphology(teratozoospermia) was the most common type of semen defect found in the studied infertile males(76%). A statistically significant association was found between occupation and seminal fluidparameters.CONCLUSION:The majority of infertile males have primary infertility type and teratozoospermia was the mostcommon type of semen defect. percentage of semen defect has increased with increased age and hascorrelated to occupational exposures.

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