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- ARTICLESFrom a Men's Health Science Newsgroup on male infertility:
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Although autoimmunization to spermatozoa is a cause of male infertility, thecause of antibody formation is unknown in most cases. It has been shown that the titer isusually unchanged for as much as 16 years in the same individual. Trials to reduce thetiter with varying methods have not been successful. A new possibility of treatment wasindicated by the finding of a higher incidence of prostatitis in men with sperm antibodiesthan in a control group. Following treatment of prostatitis we observed a reduction of theantibody titer in eight cases. In five cases the cervical mucus penetrating capacity ofthe spermatozoa improved, and conception occurred.
To make this clearer. They are simply stating that itwould seem prostatitis starts much earlier than is usually suspected or known and thattreating men for prostatitis early on would help with male infertility associated withweak mucus penetrating capabilities.
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