TESTICULAR HISTOPATHOLOGY CHARACTERTISTIC AND THE RESULT OF TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION IN PATIENTS WITH NON-MOSAIC KLINEFELTER SYNDROME

Thế Sơn Trịnh1, , Thị Hằng Đoàn1, Đức Minh Phạm1, Văn Phi Trương2, Hữu Việt Đinh3
1 Viện Mô phôi Lâm sàng Quân đội, Học viện Quân y
2 Trung tâm IVF, Bệnh viện Đa khoa Hà Nội
3 Bệnh viện Nam học và Hiếm muộn Hà Nội

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Abstract

Objectives: Describe clinical and paraclinical characteristics of Klinefelter azoospermia patients, evaluate the ability to retrieve sperm using micro TESE in Klinefelter azoospermia patients.


Subjects and methods: Descriptive, prospective study on 67 KS azoospermia patients (47, pure XXY) treated at three assisted reproductive facilities from 05/2023–05/2025. Clinical, endocrine, testicular volume, histopathological parameters and micro TESE results were collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics.


Results: Mean age 34.1 ± 4.5 years; infertility duration 5.0 ± 4.4 years; BMI 23.1 ± 2.6 kg/m². Average FSH and LH were 37.2 ± 18.9 mIU/mL and 23.2 ± 8.2 mIU/mL, respectively; Testosterone 7.0 ± 5.1 ng/mL. Bilateral testicular volume was approximately 1.5 mL. Histopathology showed “only Sertoli cells” accounting for 46.3%, hyaline sclerosis 19.4%, spermatogenesis arrest 13.4% and spermatogenesis failure 20.9%. Micro TESE successfully collected sperm in 14/67 patients (20.9%).


Conclusion: Azoospermic KS patients in Vietnam have the main histopathological feature of “only Sertoli cells” syndrome. The success rate of sperm retrieval by micro TESE is 21%, this technique provides the opportunity for biological fatherhood and should be indicated early also confirms the effectiveness of micro TESE in treating non-obstructive azoospermic patients with Klinefelter syndrome.

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