An inquiry was carried out in 91 students of the V year of Medical Academy, potential semen donors for artificial insemination, for gaining an insight into the degree of acceptance of this problem in their present situation and in assumed possible infertility of them or their partners, and the foreseen results of sociocultural consequences of the infertility of one of the partners in a married couple, as regarded by the responders. The highest grade of acceptance of semen donation for heterologous insemination was shown by students living in cities and coming from the families of the intelligentsia. Among the factors determining this attitude the most frequent were: altruistic attitude, followed by economic gains. Religion had only a slight influence on this attitude. In the studied group a higher acceptance was gained in case of female infertility by resolving the problem by use of the so called proxy-mother, than by artificial insemination in case of male infertility. Nearly half the responders supported adoption of a child in preference to artificial insemination, while heterologous insemination was preferred mainly by responders coming from small towns and villages.

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[Hypoplasia of Leydig's cells as a cause of male pseudohermaphroditism].

A case of male hermaphroditism is presented. It complied with all traditional criteria of male hermaphroditism due to Leydig's cells hypoplasia (anomaly of the internal genitalia, karyotype 46, XY, presence of the testicular tissue, no response of the hypoplastic Leydig's cells to HCG stimulation with simultaneous dramatic decrease in their number in the interstitial tissue. Emphasis is on the marked difference in incomplete virilization of the external genitalia related to the occurrence of Leydig's cells insufficiency.

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[Results of heterologous artificial insemination, ethical- deontological implications].

Fourteen female patients married to infertile men were artificially inseminated with the semen of unknown donors within 1985-1987. Over 150 inseminations (no complications except sporadic pain) produced 7 pregnancies out of which 5 were finished with the delivery of healthy babies, one was terminated in the seventh week with abortion. Fate of the remaining pregnancy is unknown. Ethical-legal implications of AID, the problem of donors and classification of semen, and necessity to store the semen at the temperature of liquid nitrogen due to the risk of AID are emphasized.

Abortion, Spontaneous↗

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Surgical treatment of the goiter.

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