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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
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<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>
</body>
</article>
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