Transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy for evaluating surgical prognosis in sterilized women desiring a new pregnancy / Hidrolaparoscopia transvaginal no prognóstico cirúrgico de mulheres laqueadas candidatas à reversão da esterilização tubária

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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Background: The rate of post sterilization regret in women is about 2% to 26% de-pending on the moment of life they are living. Surgical reversibility can be carried out with the use of laparotomy, minilaparotomy or laparoscopy. However, tubal condi-tions must be assessed for the surgical prognosis. Hysterosalpingography is useful for assessing the proximal surgical scar of the ligated tube, and laparoscopy is used for evaluating the distal portion. Distal portion of ligated tubes were evaluated by transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy (THL) as an alternative to laparoscopy in this investi-gation. Method: Between August 2001 and April 2004, 38 female candidates for sterilization reversal without any other pelvic disease, aged up to 40 years old, pre-senting body mass index <35 kg/m2, whose partners did not present abnormal es-permogram, and without indication for in vitro fertilization were submitted to outpa-tient THL under local anesthesia. Surgical reversal was accomplished in 30 patients with minilaparotomy, considered the golden-pattern for analyzing the accuracy of THL findings. Results: 1) Pelvic cavity was achieved in 36 (94.7%) patients, and the access failed in the other two (5.3%). 2) Out of the 30 patients who were kept in the study, failure in achieving the pelvic cavity occurred in two (6.7%) of them. In the remaining 28 (93.3%) women or 56 tubes, THL diagnosis was correct in 25 (89.3%) and unsatisfactory in the other three (10.7%). Prognosis failure was result of hy-drosalpinge, and one of these three patients presented two points ligated in both tubes as well. 3) There were no THL complications in all cases. Conclusion: THL is a technique useful for allowing visualization of fimbriae and distal stump of ligated tubes, and for accurately previewing the possibility of surgical reversal, although the presence of hydrosalpinge can interfere in the THL prognosis for tubal reversibility.

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infertility culdoscopia/métodos culdoscopy/technique laparoscopia/métodos esterilização tubária obstetric and gynecologic diagnosis techinique endoscopia/métodos infertilidade laparoscopia/utilização endoscopia/utilização endoscopy/use laparoscopy/use endoscopy/technique culdoscopy/use laparoscopy/technique tubal sterilization culdoscopia/utilização técnicas de diagnóstico obstétrico e ginecológico

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