Hysterosalpingography (HSG) is generally considered a stressful and painful procedure; we aimed to evaluate whether a single education and counseling intervention could reduce women's distress and pain after undergoing HSG for infertility. Patients were randomized into control group (n = 108) and intervention group (n = 109). All patients filled the following questionnaires before and after HSG...

 ABSTRACT Background and Objective: To assess the diagnostic value of hysterosalpingography (HSG) in the evaluation of the uterine cavity in recurrent aborters in comparison to hysteroscopy as the gold standard of diagnosis. Methods: 58 reproductive age women, all with habitual abortion (3 consecutive abortions), were examined by both HSG and hysteroscopy. Results: The overall sensitivity and s...

BACKGROUND A multicentre randomized controlled trial with or without hysterosalpingography (HSG) was conducted to assess the usefulness of HSG as a routine investigation in the fertility workup prior to laparoscopy and dye. METHODS From 1 April 1997 to 1 April 2002, subfertile women were allocated by a computer-based 1 : 1 ratio randomization procedure, either for an HSG followed by laparosco...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to assess the accuracy of hysterosalpingo-contrast sonography (HyCoSy) in establishing tubal patency or blockage and evaluating the uterine cavity by comparing it with hysteroscopy laparoscopy (HLC) or hysterosalpingography (HSG). STUDY DESIGN This study was a chart review evaluating infertility patients and patients who had undergone hysteroscopic ste...

We show that for the blackbox polynomial identity testing (PIT) problem it suffices to study circuits that depend only on the first extremely few variables. One only need to consider size-s degree-s circuits that depend on the first log◦c s variables (where c is a constant and we are composing c logarithms). Thus, hitting-set generator (hsg) manifests a bootstrapping behavior— a partial hsg aga...

In this study, the in vitro interaction of epirubicin (EPR), a cytostatic antibiotic, with plasma proteins (PP), namely alpha-HSA, gamma-HSG, alpha+beta-HSG and with isolated human red blood cells (RBCs) was investigated and further correlated with the in vivo pharmacokinetics and binding of EPR and two of its metabolites, 13-dihydroepirubicin and 7-deoxydoxorubicinone to RBCs. The in vitro enc...

OBJECTIVES To review the hysterosalpingographic (HSG) findings in women investigated for infertility in a tertiary center in north eastern Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective review of HSG films of 272 women investigated for infertility between January 2000 and December 2006 were reviewed. RESULTS One hundred and thirty (47.8%) were investigated for primary infertility, while 142...

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 ...