Endometrial ablation offers symptomatic relief for menorrhagia. Pregnancy after ablation is rare but is often complicated due to pregnancy loss, growth restriction, preterm premature rupture of membranes, preterm delivery, and morbidly adherent placentation, a dangerous complication that can result in hemorrhage, intensive care unit admission, and cesarean hysterectomy. We report a case of preg...

Male and female sterilization is used in many countries worldwide as a permanent method of contraception. Failure rates for female sterilization are affected by age at sterilization and by the method of tubal occlusion. Laparoscopic sterilization has low complication rates but is not available in parts of the developing world due to the lack of facilities, equipment and expertise. Less invasive...

OBJECTIVE To assess the safety, effectiveness, and reliability of a tubal occlusion microinsert for permanent contraception, as well as to document patient recovery from the placement procedure and overall patient satisfaction. METHODS A cohort of 518 previously fertile women seeking sterilization participated in this prospective, phase III, international, multicenter trial. Microinsert place...

Hysterosalpingography (HSG) is a diagnostic modality still commonly used to evaluate tubal occlusion in infertility management. We evaluated the treatment benefit achieving patency and spontaneous pregnancy women with bilateral our resource poor setting using water soluble contrast medium. Objective: To assess proportion of that achieved following repeat HSG evaluation associated factors. Mater...

Although cumulative risk assessment by definition evaluates the joint effects of chemical and nonchemical stressors, studies to date have not considered both dimensions, in part because toxicological studies cannot capture many stressors of interest. Epidemiology can potentially include all relevant stressors, but developing and extracting the necessary information is challenging given some of ...

ObjectiveTo conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis evaluating the effect of hydrosalpinx on pregnancy outcomes, to compare different types management their impact rates as well ovarian reserve.Data SourcesElectronic search using Pubmed, EMBASE, Ovid MEDLINE, Google Scholar, ClinicalTrials.gov, Cochrane Central Register Controlled Trials including all published studies that examined tubal...