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Doctors Claim C****av***s May Cause Damage to Man's Testicle
ChinaWire
Doctors in China have urged male c****av***s patients to test their fertility as soon as they recover because the infection may damage the function of their testicles.
No study has proved that the v***s will reduce men's fertility or sexual potency.
But medics in W***n have suggested the likelihood that the disease can affect the production of sperm and the formation of male sex hormones.
Although the c****av***s mainly targets one's lungs and i****e s****m, it can, in theory, impair a man's abilities to reproduce, according to W***n's Tongji Hospital.
The comments were made yesterday by Prof Li Yufeng and his team at the hospital's Centre for Reproductive Medicine.
Tongji Hospital, affiliated to Huazhong University of Science and Technology, is one of the hospitals designated by the government to treat c****av***s patients since an outbreak started in W***n in January.
According to the experts, the new c****av***s, known as SARS-CoV-2, enters human cells and causes tissue damage by binding its spike protein to cell membrane protein angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2).
ACE2 is known to be present in other human organs apart from the lungs and can especially be abundant in a man's testes. It can be concentrated in several cells which are directly related to the male reproductive abilities, including the germ cells, supporting cells and Leydig cells, the team claimed.
They added that during the SARS outbreak in 2002 and 2003, medics observed serious i****e s****m damage in the testicles of some male patients.
Even though doctors did not detect the SARS c****av***s, or SARS-CoV, in patients' testicles, they could suffer inflammation in their sexual organs, the study said.
Since the new c****av***s is highly similar to the SARS c****av***s and the two share the same host cell receptor ACE2, the team concluded that, in theory, the new c****av***s could cause damage to men's testicles.
'Therefore, for men who have had the infection, especially those who need to reproduce, it is best to undergo relevant fertility tests, such as sperm quality and hormone level tests, upon recovery to detect possible problems as soon as possible,' a hospital report wrote.
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