Haematospermia etiology and clinical significance

ABSTRACT

A prospective study was carried out on 31 patients with hematospermia at Al-Rasheed Military hospital between October 1999 and October 2001. All patients were clinically assessed and subjected to urinalysis and seminal fluid analysis. Other investigations were done according to individual cases. More than 90% of the patients had no prior genitourinary symptoms or significant factors in their history. The etiology of hemtospermia was determined and found to be of inflammatory origin in most men especially the young. In 3 of the 31 patients hematuria occurred with hematospermia and was associated with significant lower urinary tract abnormalities such as bladder tumor, however in none of these a relationship appeared between hematospermia and the disease process. From this study we can conclude that hematospermia is of no importance, does not progress, tend to disappear in the coarse of time 7 rarely is associated with any significant urologic pathology