Context: Secondary infertility is a major public health issue with growing urbanisation and increasing age of marriage among women. Disease limited to low socioeconomic strata is commonly seen in general population. Judicious and accurate assessment of underlying pathology targeting tubes should be undertaken. Aims: The aim of this observational study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of so...

Objective : Tubal obstruction is one of the most common causes female infertility. While laparoscopy (LS) gold standart method for assessing patency tubes, hysterosalpingography (HSG) widely used as a first-line approach in infertility work-up. The aim this study was to compare HSG and LS assessment tubal patency. Materials Methods Patients who underwent HSG, followed by primary secondary betwe...

Failure to conceive within one or more years of regular unprotected coitus is defined as Infertility. Tubal blockage the most common causative factors in female infertility. The prevalence 19.1% fertility age group. This condition not described Ayurvedic classics itself tubal blocks but Blockages fallopian tubes can be better correlated with Vandhyatvadue Artavbijavahasrotavrodha (Blockages tub...

introduction: chlamydia is an important cause of sexually transmitted diseases leading to tubal factor infertility. background: this study aims to define the role of chlamydial antibody detection in predicting presence, nature and type of tubal pathology in laparoscopy. materials and methods: a prospective study was conducted on 200 consecutive patients undergoing laparoscopy as a part of infer...

BACKGROUND Infertility is a common health problem requiring imaging to delineate the anatomical causes in women. Three dimensional multi-detector computed tomography hysterosalpingography (3D-MDCT-HSG) offers an easy workup for uterine, tubal and peritoneal factors. METHODS To present the spectrum of uterine, tubal and peritoneal factors on 3D-MDCT-HSG and determine its diagnostic accuracy fo...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of endometriosis, alone or in combination with other infertility diagnoses, on IVF outcomes. DESIGN Population-based retrospective cohort study of cycles from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinic Outcome Reporting System database. SETTING Not applicable. PATIENT(S) A total of 347,185 autologous fresh and frozen assisted reproductive techno...

Objective. Women with infertility and recurrent miscarriages may have an overlapping etiology. The aim of this study was to compare the pregnancy loss in pregnancies after IVF treatment with spontaneous pregnancies in women with recurrent miscarriages and to assess differences related to cause of infertility. Methods. The outcome from 1220 IVF pregnancies (Group I) was compared with 611 spontan...

BACKGROUND Ectopic pregnancy is the leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality during the first trimester and the incidence increases dramatically with assisted-reproductive technology (ART), occurring in approximately 1.5-2.1 % of patients undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Abdominal ectopic pregnancy is a rare yet clinically significant form of ectopic pregnancy due to potentiall...

Background/Purpose: The aim of the research was to describe the pattern of tubal pathologies on HSG in patients with infertility. Method: A prospective descriptive study of 120 HSG’s of infertile women was conducted over a 1-year period from January 2000 to December 2000. Results: Primary infertility was 20% and secondary infertility was 80%. Hydrosalphinges was the most frequent abnormality in...