A study of role of diagnostic laparoscopy in the management of female infertility

INTRODUCTION Infertility has now a day’s became not only a medical problem but a social problem as well. Laparoscopy now a day is the most rapidly developing area in medical science 1 . Laparoscopy provides direct visualisation of inner pelvic organs anatomy without a major abdominal surgery, so that anatomy of uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes can be studied in more details and abnormalities can be treated at the same time 2 . With recent improvements in the assisted reproductive technology (ART), there has been a tendency that bypasses diagnostic laparoscopy and directly proceeds to ART. Therefore, the value of diagnostic laparoscopy in current fertility practice is under debate 3 . In the present study, we evaluated the usefulness of diagnostic laparoscopy for patients with unexplained infertility with normal diagnostic infertility reports. Between Dec, 2012 to June 2014,100 infertile patients underwent diagnostic laparoscopy revealed pathologic abnormalities. The objective of this study was to study role of Diagnostic hysterolaparoscopy to detect cause of unexplained female infertility and to evaluate success rate of laparoscopic procedure done at