Table 2.
Pathological findings in the testes of 12 COVID-19 patients.
| Case no. | Tubular injury | Leydig cells | Spermatogenesis | SARS-CoV-2 (RT-PCR) |
Electron microscopy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lung | Testis | |||||
| S20-4 | Severe | 2.0 | Hypospermatogenesis, MPH | + | – | ND |
| S20-5 | ND | ND | ND | + | + | ND |
| S20-6 | Moderate | 2.2 | Hypospermatogenesis, MPH | + | – | ND |
| S20-7 | Moderate | 0.44 | Maturation arrest, MPH | + | – | ND |
| S20-9 | Moderate | 1.6 | Spermatogenesis appropriate for age | – | – | ND |
| S20-12 | Mild | 2.82 | Hypospermatogenesis | + | – | Not detected |
| S20-14 | Moderate | 5.3 | Spermatogenesis appropriate for age | + | – | Not detected |
| S20-19 | Moderate | 1.0 | Spermatogenesis appropriate for age | + | – | ND |
| S20-20 | Mild | 3.6 | Maturation arrest | + | – | Not detected |
| S20-22 | Severe | ND | Maturation arrest, MPH | + | – | ND |
| S20-23 | Severe | 1.0 | Hypospermatogenesis | – | – | ND |
| S20-24 | Severe | 1.5 | Maturation arrest, MPH | + | – | ND |
MPH = mild peritubular hyalinization; ND = not determined; RT-PCR = reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction; SARS-CoV-2 = severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.