Seminal TEX101 May Predict Seminal Sperm Recovery after Varicocelectomy in Nonobstructive Azoospermic Patients with Varicocele

Table 2

Seminal sperm recovery in NOA cases after varicocelectomy in different studies (n, %).

	Author(s) Year	Reference (n)	Country	Mean age (years)	NOA cases (n)	Seminal sperm recovery (n)	%
1	Czaplicki et al., 1979	[9]	Poland	30.3	33	12	12/33 (36.4%)
2	Matthews et al., 1998	[25]	USA	35	22	12	12/22 (54.5%)
3	Kim et al., 1999	[26]	USA	25	28	12	12/28 (42.9%)
4	Kadioǧlu et al., 2001	[27]	Turkey	30	24	5	5/24 (20.8%)
5	Schlegel and Kaufmann, 2004	[28]	USA	NA	31	7	7/31 (22.6%)
6	Çakan and Altuğ, 2004	[29]	Turkey	29	13	3	3/13 (23.1%)
7	Esteves and Glina, 2005	[30]	Brazil	32	17	8	8/17 (47.1%)
8	Gat et al., 2005	[23]	Israel	34	32	18	18/32 (56.3%)
9	Poulakis et al., 2006	[31]	Germany	34	14	7	7/14 (50%)
10	Pasqualotto et al., 2006	[32]	Brazil	30	27	9	9/27 (33.3%)
11	Lee et al., 2007	[33]	Korea	32	19	7	7/19 (36.8%)
12	Ishikawa et al., 2007	[34]	Japan	33.3	6	2	2/6 (33.3%)
13	Cocuzza et al., 2009	[35]	Brazil	29.4	10	3	3/10 (30%)
14	Youssef et al., 2009	[36]	Egypt	31.8	51	14	14/51 (27.5%)
15	Abdel Meguid, 2012	[37]	Egypt	34.9	31	10	10/31 (32.3%)
16	Kiraç et al., 2013	[38]	Turkey	31.7	23	7	7/23 (30.4%)
17	Zampieri et al., 2013	[39]	Italy	33	35	17	17/35 (48.6%)
18	Aboutaleb et al., 2014	[40]	Egypt	29.9	20	6	6/20 (30.0%)
19	D’Andrea et al., 2015	[41]	Italy	37	23	11/	11/23 (47.8%)
20	Shiraishi et al., 2016	[42]	Japan	34	83	20	20/83 (24.1%)
21	Tian et al., 2018	[43]	China	30	130	18	18/130 (13.8%)
22	Zhi et al., 2018	[44]	China	28.1	60	27	27/60 (45%)
23	Sajadi et al., 2019	[45]	Iran	33.8	57	8	8/57 (14%)
24	Elbardisi et al., 2020	[46]	Qatar	35.7	42	11	11/42 (26.2%)
Total					243	831	243/831 (29.2%)