Varicocele

🔬Causes & Risk Factors

• 1Results from incompetent or faulty valves within the veins draining the testicle
• 2causing blood to pool and the veins to enlarge
• 3most often due to anatomical factors affecting the left testicular vein's drainage into the renal vein. It commonly develops during puberty when blood flow to the reproductive organs increases. In rare cases in older men
• 4a sudden varicocele can signal an underlying kidney tumour obstructing venous drainage
• 5warranting further evaluation.