Acute Testicular Torsion: The Need of Health Awareness Moroccan Experience

The impact of testicular death and orchidectomy is physical and psychological. Most often, testicular torsion occurs in adolescence [4]. For adolescents, whose personality is being formed, the orchidectomy represents an extreme psychological and physical aggression. Besides its potential impact on fertility [1], Testicular torsion rises in severity if occurs on a single testis demanding an androgenic substitution per life, with a definit infertility. This impact on fertility can occur even on salvaged testis. But it seems to be less severe in this case [3]. On the psychological level, orchidectomy has the particularity to touch the « center » of virility in men. In fact, the testicles possessing a functional value becomes "vital" organ in the period of adolescence and puberty. Thus, the impact on the sexual identity of adolescents seems inevitable, but its depth remains to be assessed. Indeed, Unfortunately, we do not find in the literature, as we know, any study dealing with the consequences of orchiectomy on the personality of the young men in particular.