American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
Hamad Medical Hospital, Doha 3050, Qatar.
Asian J Androl. 2019 Nov-Dec;21(6):565-569. doi: 10.4103/aja.aja_5_19.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), oxidative stress (OS) is a significant contributor to male infertility. Seminal OS can be measured by a number of assays, all of which are either costly or time sensitive and/or require large semen volume and complex instrumentation. One less expensive alternative is to quantify the oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) with the MiOXSYS. In this international multi-center study, we assessed whether ORP levels measured by the MiOXSYS could distinguish semen samples that fall within the 2010 WHO normal reference values from those that do not. Semen samples were collected from 2092 patients in 9 countries; ORP was normalized to sperm concentration (mV/10 sperm/ml). Only those samples with a concentration >1 × 10 sperm ml were included. The results showed that 199 samples fell within the WHO normal reference range while the remaining 1893 samples did not meet one or more of the criteria. ORP was negatively correlated with all semen parameters (P < 0.01) except volume. The area under the curve for ORP was 0.765. The ORP cut-off value (1.34 mV/10 sperm/ml) was able to differentiate specimens with abnormal semen parameters with 98.1% sensitivity, 40.6% specificity, 94.7% positive predictive value (PPV) and 66.6% negative predictive value (NPV). When used as an adjunct to traditional semen analysis, ORP levels may help identify altered functional status of spermatozoa caused by OS in cases of idiopathic male infertility and in male partners of couples suffering recurrent pregnancy loss, and thereby directing these men to relevant medical therapies and lifestyle modifications.
根据世界卫生组织(WHO)的说法,氧化应激(OS)是男性不育的一个重要原因。可以通过多种检测方法来测量精液中的 OS,所有这些方法要么昂贵,要么耗时且/或需要大量精液量和复杂的仪器。一种较便宜的替代方法是使用 MiOXSYS 来量化氧化还原电位(ORP)。在这项国际多中心研究中,我们评估了 MiOXSYS 测量的 ORP 水平是否可以区分 2010 年 WHO 正常参考值范围内的精液样本和不在范围内的精液样本。从 9 个国家的 2092 名患者中收集了精液样本;ORP 被标准化为精子浓度(mV/10 精子/ml)。仅包括浓度大于 1×10 精子/ml 的样本。结果表明,有 199 个样本在 WHO 正常参考范围内,而其余 1893 个样本不符合一个或多个标准。ORP 与所有精液参数呈负相关(P<0.01),除了体积。ORP 的曲线下面积为 0.765。ORP 截断值(1.34 mV/10 精子/ml)能够区分具有异常精液参数的标本,其灵敏度为 98.1%,特异性为 40.6%,阳性预测值(PPV)为 94.7%,阴性预测值(NPV)为 66.6%。当作为传统精液分析的辅助手段时,ORP 水平可能有助于识别特发性男性不育症和反复妊娠丢失夫妇中男性伴侣的精子 OS 引起的功能状态改变,并引导这些男性接受相关的医疗治疗和生活方式改变。
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