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Of the 44, 9 men were excluded from the study due to concurrent treatment with TRT or Clomiphene Citrate (CC). This was an IRB approved retrospective case series of 44 men (age 26-77) with symptoms of hypogonadism treated by two Andrologists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Baylor College of Medicine from February 2015 to May 2018. Of the 20 men included in the study, treatment indications included low libido (45%), lack of energy (50%), and erectile dysfunction (45%).
We evaluated changes in hormones (T, LH, FSH, and estradiol), HCT, HbA1c, and PSA before and after initiating hCG monotherapy. We retrospectively analyzed the charts of 28 men with previous exogenous T use who visited our urology clinic and were subsequently on hCG monotherapy for at least one month with follow-up labs. Patients were excluded if they were on other forms of T therapy (such as clomiphene, anastrozole, or T) concurrently with hCG or did not have a follow-up testosterone laboratory result after at least one month.
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