L-Carnitine and Improved Semen Quality

• L-carnitine as primary or adjuvant treatment in infertile patients with varicocele. A systematic review.

  • 2020-10-02
  • Systematic Review
  • Archivio italiano di urologia, andrologia : organo ufficiale [di] Societa italiana di ecografia urologica e nefrologica 92(3)
  • • Georgios Tsampoukas
    • Muhammad Faisal Khan
    • Antigoni Katsouri
    • Waseem Akhter
    • Mohamad Moussa
    • Konstantinos Deliveliotis
    • Athanasios Papatsoris
    • Noor Buchholz

  • PubMed: 33016059
  • DOI: 10.4081/aiua.2020.3.263

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Semen Quality

  • High evidence

  as an adjuvant treatment to varicocelectomy, L-carnitine showed no clear benefit

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No