[The role of the functional interrelation of the adrenals and testes in the pathogenesis of sterility in patients with left-sided varicocele].

Selective renal phlebography, phlebotonometry, selective analysis of the blood from the renal veins and vena cava inferior for the activity of plasma renin, catecholamines, prostaglandins E2, pO2 and pCO2, peripheral blood analysis for levels of progesterone, androstendione, testosterone, ACTH, ACTH-tolerance test, orchidometry, ejaculate microscopy, evaluation of seminal plasma testosterone, trochanter index and parameters of sexual maturation were performed during the treatment of 70 patients with left varicocele. Based on the results the authors concluded that not only the left testicle, but the left adrenal was involved in the course of organic renal venous hypertension. A significant feedback correlation was revealed between the peripheral blood progesterone and the left kidney venous pressure (r = -0.50, p less than 0.01) and between the peripheral blood progesterone and the number of motile spermatozoa in the ejaculate (r = -0.31, p less than 0.05). Pathogenesis of organic renal venous hypertension and spermatogenesis failure were supplemented by the conclusion that the left adrenal central vein was the first to involve into the compensation of venous hypertension. Retrograde alterations in the direction of the blood flow in the left adrenal central vein resulted in the abnormal stimulation of steroidogenesis in the cortical layer. The excessive production of antiandrogenic steroid hormones by the left adrenal gland was a cause of spermatogenesis damage in both testicles. The blockage of the left adrenal androgenic hormones of the hypothalamo-hypophyseal system can deteriorate the process.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)