Patient's question:
Since suffering from epididymal malformation, I have been overthinking every day, imagining this disease as extremely frightening. Because I don't understand this condition at all, I constantly feel anxious and troubled, unable to eat or sleep. How can epididymal malformation be improved?Doctor's answer:
Due to the frequent occurrence of epididymal malformations in patients with cryptorchidism, its recurrence may be related to endocrine dysfunction during embryonic growth and development. Due to excessively low testosterone levels, mesonephric tubules and mesonephric ducts fail to develop or develop incompletely, leading to various types of epididymal malformations. If the mesonephric ducts fail to develop at all, it can result in congenital absence of the epididymis and vas deferens. If development ceases at a certain location, it can form a self-locking structure at that site. When the epididymal ducts coil and twist around an obstacle, it can lead to significant shortening of the epididymis and recurrence of a loop-shaped epididymal malformation.