The Influence of seasonality on testicular torsion incidence from 2010 to 2019 in Paulista east region

Abstract

The emergency medical condition that characterizes the spermatic cord torsion engenders the need to learn more about the pathophysiology of this condition. Since studies have shown seasonality and temperature as potential influencing factors in increasing the incidence of testicular torsion, this study aims at corroborating with this information, which is still controversial in the medical literature, however of great importance for the understanding of this disease. The objective is to know both the incidence and prevalence of testicular torsion in the Paulista east region, as well as whether the climate conditions establish seasonality with its incidence and prevalence. Regarding methodology, we accessed the DATASUS platform to collect information about the Paulista east region cases from 2010 to 2019. Moreover, a request for access to maximum and minimum temperature data for all months from 2010 to 2019, in the studied area was made to INPE. The graphs and the statistical analysis were performed by means of Excel Microsoft 365® and IBM SPSS®, respectively. The result of comparing all the studied information has shown that low temperature is a potential factor to increase the number of spermatic cord torsion, however the statistical analysis finds that it is not possible to establish a seasonality pattern in this condition.