A 26-year-old male presents to the emergency room complaining of right-sided scrotal soreness that has been becoming worse over the past 10 hours. The patient has a unilateral orchiectomy after clinical and radiological examinations reveal testicular torsion with substantial ischemia damage. He returns to the office for follow-up three months later. The patient is otherwise in good condition and does not take any drugs, but she is concerned about the possibility of infertility and sexual dysfunction. Which of the following sets of results in this case are most likely to be revealed by further testing?

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Eductional Objective: Libido, erectile function, and secondary sex traits are maintained after unilateral orchiectomy because the decrease in testosterone encourages pituitary LH secretion, which in turn drives greater testosterone synthesis in the residual testis. However, sperm counts often decline as a result of the loss of sperm-producing tissue.

A 26-Year-Old Male Presents to the Emergency Room Complaining of Right-Sided