conclusion hsg is considered to have a high sensitivity and specificity. hsg and laparoscopy are not alternative, but are the complementary methods in the examination of no tubal patency. results the sensitivity and specificity of hsg on bilateral tubal patency or no bilateral tubal patency were 92.1% and 85.7% respectively. the positive and negative predictive values were 97.2% and 66.7%, and ...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopy has been claimed to be superior to hysterosalpingography (HSG) in predicting fertility. Whether this conclusion is applicable to a general subfertile population can be questioned as data in support of this claim were collected in third line centres. The aim of this study was to assess the prognostic capacity of HSG and laparoscopy in a general subfertile population. MET...

Peterson HB, Lube11 I, DeStefano F, Ory HW (Family Planning Evaluation Division, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia. and the Association for Voluntary Sterilization, Inc., New York, NY, USA). The safety and efficacy of tubal sterilization. An international overview. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 21: 139-144, 1983 This article presents a synthesis of some of the major.puMished studies on the ...

STUDY DESIGN: Using decision analysis techniques, we compared cost-effectiveness of tubal reanastomosis by tubal type vs tubal surgery or in vitro fertilization (IVF) for 3 separate age groups of women: <35 years of age, 35 to 40 years of age and >40 years of age. Tubal techniques was divided into type A, those with more favorable prognosis because of the likelihood of having a more significant...

Tubal sterilization is a common form of contraception in the United States and is hypothesized to be associated with a lower risk of breast cancer. However, prior observational studies have reported inconsistent results. We investigated the association between tubal sterilization and breast cancer risk among 77,249 postmenopausal, cancer-free women in the Cancer Prevention Study II (CPS-II) Nut...

OBJECTIVES To compare the subsequent fertility and risk of recurrence of an ectopic pregnancy (EP) in women who had had an EP, according to the type of surgical treatment they received--that is, salpingectomy, salpingostomy or tubal anastomosis. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was carried out between January 2003 and September 2011 of 618 patients admitted to hospital with tubal EP and w...

Possible relationships between tubal ligation and hysterectomy and epithelial ovarian cancer were assessed in data that were collected for a multinational hospital-based case-control study conducted between 1979 and 1988. Histologically confirmed incident cases (n = 393) were compared with controls (n = 2563) matched on age, hospital, and year of interview. A nonsignificant reduction in risk wa...

background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the fallopian tube of women with infertility and to observe whether there are any significant differences in the hysterosalpingogram findings with regard to prevalence of tubal block in women with primary and secondary infertility. methods: a retrospective study of unilateral and bilateral tubal obstruction in hysterosalpingogram of women wi...

A case of recurrent tubal pregnancies occurring at intervals of 7 and 12 years after puerperal sterilization is presented. Dr. E.P.L. Loong, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin (Hong Kong) Introduction Ectopic pregnancy is a potentially hazardous complication following tubal sterilization which, if not recognized and tr...

Tubal sterilization is the most common form of birth control used in the world.1 Between 1994 and 1996, more than 2 million tubal sterilizations were performed in the US,2 with 28% of women aged 15–44 years relying on this method of contraception.3 Advances in laparoscopic techniques have resulted in a substantial increase in the number of women undergoing tubal sterilization, with nearly all i...