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- <text id=93TT1180>
- <title>
- Mar. 15, 1993: Avoiding Unkind Cuts
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 15, 1993 In the Name of God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 23
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Avoiding Unkind Cuts
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A nonsurgical treatment for infertility should have men sighing
- with relief
- </p>
- <p> Few people think that Radiologists can actually treat medical
- conditions; they handle the X rays. Maybe patients should think
- again, particularly men with an infertility problem: varicose
- veins in the testes. About 15% of men have such abnormalities,
- which apparently heat the testicles and damage sperm.
- </p>
- <p> Radiologists can often solve the problem. Using their skill
- with X-ray imaging to guide them, they make a needle puncture
- into a vein in the groin and thread a very thin tube to the
- testes. The doctors then seal off the varicose veins with coils
- or chemicals that are sent through the tube. Johns Hopkins
- researchers reported that of 71 couples in which the man had
- had the procedure and his partner no infertility treatment, 60%
- of the women got pregnant.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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