Objective: To assess the relationship between mean platelet volume levels and varicocele.
Materials and Methods: Patients, who ad-mitted to urology outpatient clinic for check-up, enrolled in the study. All physical examinations were made by a single urologist. Peripheral venous blood samples were collected to tube including ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA-K2) anti-coagulant between 8:30 AM and 12 AM after an overnight fasting. All complete blood count (CBC) analysis done within 2 hours after venipuncture using Mindray BC 5500 Auto Hematology Ana-lyzer (Mind-ray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China). Patients were divided into two groups. Group 1: Grade III varicocele group; Group 2: Control group. We recorded the patient’s age, red blood cell (RBC), hemoglobin (Hb), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), white blood cell (WBC), platelet (PLT), mean platelet volume (MPV) values.Statistical analyses were perf ormed using the SPSS for windows ver. 16.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05.
Results: Three hundered and nine patients enrolled in the study between September 2014 and March 2015. Mean age was 22.94±1.71, mean RBC was 5.29±0.43, mean Hb was 16.21±1.03, mean MCV was 91.01±5.96, mean WBC was 6.97±1.76, mean PLT was 248.01±56.76, mean MPV was 10.89±6.40. 144 patients had grade III varicocele and 165 patients had normal physi-cal examination. Age of two groups were simi-lar. There was not any significant difference for RBC, Hb, MCV, WBC levels between two groups. Platelet levels were significantly low in varicocele group. MPV levels were high in varicocele group, but it was not statistically significant.
Conclusions: Although mean platelet vol-umes high in varicocele group, it was not statisti-cally significant. According to that mean platelet volume may not be related to the physiopathol-ogy of varicocele.
Keywords: Mean platelet volume; varicocele; MPV
Abstract
Objective: To assess the relationship between mean platelet volume levels and varicocele.
Materials and Methods: Patients, who ad-mitted to urology outpatient clinic for check-up, enrolled in the study. All physical examinations were made by a single urologist. Peripheral venous blood samples were collected to tube including ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA-K2) anti-coagulant between 8:30 AM and 12 AM after an overnight fasting. All complete blood count (CBC) analysis done within 2 hours after venipuncture using Mindray BC 5500 Auto Hematology Ana-lyzer (Mind-ray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China). Patients were divided into two groups. Group 1: Grade III varicocele group; Group 2: Control group. We recorded the patient’s age, red blood cell (RBC), hemoglobin (Hb), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), white blood cell (WBC), platelet (PLT), mean platelet volume (MPV) values.Statistical analyses were perf ormed using the SPSS for windows ver. 16.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05.
Results: Three hundered and nine patients enrolled in the study between September 2014 and March 2015. Mean age was 22.94±1.71, mean RBC was 5.29±0.43, mean Hb was 16.21±1.03, mean MCV was 91.01±5.96, mean WBC was 6.97±1.76, mean PLT was 248.01±56.76, mean MPV was 10.89±6.40. 144 patients had grade III varicocele and 165 patients had normal physi-cal examination. Age of two groups were simi-lar. There was not any significant difference for RBC, Hb, MCV, WBC levels between two groups. Platelet levels were significantly low in varicocele group. MPV levels were high in varicocele group, but it was not statistically significant.
Conclusions: Although mean platelet vol-umes high in varicocele group, it was not statisti-cally significant. According to that mean platelet volume may not be related to the physiopathol-ogy of varicocele.
Keywords: Mean platelet volume; varicocele; MPV