Are you healthy and looking to help advance medical science?

You may be eligible to participate in a spinal cord injury clinical study, and could be compensated for your time.

Are you healthy and looking to help advance medical science? You may be eligible to participate in a spinal cord injury clinical study, and could be compensated for your time.

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Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trial in Miami FL

NCT01467869 | Observational

Are you healthy and looking to help advance medical science?

You may be eligible to participate in a spinal cord injury clinical study, and could be compensated for your time.

Are you healthy and looking to help advance medical science? You may be eligible to participate in a spinal cord injury clinical study, and could be compensated for your time.

Recruiting

Male

18 - 50

Years old

This study is looking to recruit 100 Participants

Following spinal cord injury, most men are infertile and require medical assistance to father children. The conditions that contribute to their infertility are erectile dysfunction, ejaculatory dysfunction, and semen abnormalities. The Miami Project Male Fertility Program is a research study designed to understand and improve impairments to male fertility resulting from spinal cord injury.

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Details for the study

Population

Spinal cord injured men

Brief Title

Male Fertility Program

Official Title

The Miami Project Male Fertility Program

Brief Summary

Following spinal cord injury, most men are infertile and require medical assistance to father <br /> children. The conditions that contribute to their infertility are erectile dysfunction, <br /> ejaculatory dysfunction, and semen abnormalities. The Miami Project Male Fertility Program is <br /> a research study designed to understand and improve impairments to male fertility resulting <br /> from spinal cord injury.

Outcome Measures

Outcome measures are the tests that investigators perform to prove whether or not a treatment being tested in a clinical trial is having any effect.

Primary

spinal cord injury (SCI) subjects will learn the best method to obtain their semen and of their possible options for assisted conception.

Studies in the male fertility program will investigate the fertility potential of spinal cord injured men by retrieving semen which will be analyzed for sperm count, motility, morphology, etc., and correlated with patient variables such as age, time of injury, level of injury, bladder management, history of UTI's, hormonal status, etc. the outcome of the research will improve fertility in men with spinal cord injury.

2 visits; subjects will provide samples each month up to an average of 2-3 months

Study Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  -  Any man with spinal cord injury over the age of 18. Control Subjects will be any
     healthy man over the age of 18 with no recent history of infertility

Exclusion Criteria:

  -  Women will be excluded.