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No information is currently available on the quality of seminal tests in hyperprolactinemia in response to cabergoline treatment.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Objective\u2002<\/jats:bold> To further investigate the effect of hyperprolactinaemia and its treatment with cabergoline on semen quality.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Patients\u2002<\/jats:bold> Forty\u2010three men with hyperprolactinaemia (32 macro\u2010 and 11 micro\u2010prolactinomas); 60 healthy men served as control.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods\u2002<\/jats:bold> Live spermatozoa count, sperm membrane function, kinetic index, nuclear DNA integrity, sperm curvilinear and linear velocity and amplitude of lateral movement of the sperm head were investigated before and after 6 and 24 months of treatment with cabergoline.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Study design\u2002<\/jats:bold> Open prospective.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results\u2002<\/jats:bold> At study entry, semen functional tests were severely and similarly impaired both in patients with macro\u2010 and micro\u2010prolactinomas compared to controls. After 6 and 12 months of treatment there was a significant improvement of semen quality in patients achieving normalization of prolactin levels, although most of the parameters remained lower than in controls. 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