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Post-vasectomy pain syndrome (PVPS) is a chronic and sometimes debilitating genital pain condition that may develop immediately or several years after vasectomy. [1] [2] [3] Because this condition is a syndrome, there is no single treatment method, therefore efforts focus on mitigating/relieving the individual patient's specific pain.
Chronic testicular pain may be caused by injury, infection, surgery, cancer, varicocele, or testicular torsion, and is a possible complication after vasectomy. [2] IgG4-related disease is a more recently identified cause of chronic orchialgia. [4] One author describes the syndromes of chronic testicular pain thus:
A 45 year old man presented with right testicular chronic pain. He had a vasectomy 7 years ago. Upon physical examination and an ultrasound, a solid nodule in the right epididymis was found, and medical staff suspected a tumor. After findings of sperm that had undergone phagocytosis, a final diagnosis of sperm granuloma was determined. [14]
Cause of Sore Testicles: Vasectomy. Experiencing scrotal pain after a vasectomy — a surgical birth control procedure in which the duct that carries your sperm from your testicles to your urethra ...
A vasectomy is a surgery that cuts the vas deferens, tubes that carry sperm from the testicles to the urethra, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. After a vasectomy, sperm cannot ...
Post-vasectomy pain syndrome is a chronic and sometimes debilitating condition that may develop immediately or several years after vasectomy. [27] The most robust study of post-vasectomy pain, according to the American Urology Association's Vasectomy Guidelines 2012 (amended 2015) [ 28 ] surveyed people just before their vasectomy and again ...
Chronic scrotal pain (pain for greater than 3 months) may occur due to a number of underlying conditions. [3] It occurs in 15-19% of men post vasectomy, due to infections such as epididymitis, prostatitis, and orchitis, as well as varicocele, hydrocele, spermatocele, polyarteritis nodosa, testicular torsion, previous surgery and trauma. [3]
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