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Infertility
Artificial Intelligence
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Abstract
Objetivo: Identificar en la literatura científica los factores predictivos asociados con la cirugía exitosa de varicocele para la infertilidad. Métodos: Revisión integradora, con artículos publicados entre 2019 y 2023, en portugués, inglés y español y texto completo disponible. Se utilizó la pregunta guía: ¿Cuáles son los factores predictivos asociados con la cirugía exitosa de varicocele para la infertilidad? La búsqueda bibliográfica se realizó en noviembre de 2023 en las bases de datos: Pubmed, Biblioteca Virtual en Salud, Scielo y Science Direct, a través de los Descriptores de Ciencias de la Salud: Varicocele, Infertilidad, Inteligencia Artificial y predictores, realizando combinaciones con los términos con el uso del booleano. operador “Y”. Resultados: 27 artículos cumplieron con los criterios de inclusión y exclusión, de los cuales 06 artículos en Science Direct, 14 en Pubmed y 07 en la Biblioteca Virtual en Salud. En cuanto al tipo de estudio, 9 fueron de cohorte, 6 de revisión, 2 prospectivos, 3 retrospectivos. 2 ensayos clínicos, 3 de intervención, 1 experimental y 2 observacionales. Consideraciones finales: Se concluye que algunos factores pueden ser predictores de éxito en la cirugía de varicocele. Entre ellos se encuentran parámetros hormonales, presencia de reflujo en la ecografía, técnica quirúrgica y aspectos en el espermograma preoperatorio, nomogramas, aprendizaje automático y modelado fueron algunos de los métodos utilizados por los autores.
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