Accessible online at: www.karger.com/dsu We have followed with interest the publications of Swank et al. [1] concerning surgical adhesion-reduction strategies for the management of pelvic pain and wish to respond to their latest article, published in January 2004, which discusses the incidence/ extent of intra-abdominal adhesion formation/reformation following laparoscopic adhesiolysis. The rol...

Background Hysteroscopic adhesiolysis anatomically restores the uterine cavity in cases of Asherman's syndrome (AS); however, the extent of endometrial fibrosis could determine the pregnancy outcome. Objectives To determine whether endometrial thickness could influence pregnancy outcome of hysteroscopic adhesiolysis in women with a history of AS. Subjects and methods This was a retrospectiv...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the outcome of hysteroscopic adhesiolysis in women with Asherman's syndrome. DESIGN Retrospective clinical study. SETTING Hysteroscopic center of Fuxing Hospital in Beijing, China. PATIENT(S) Patients with Asherman's syndrome who presented with a history of infertility or recurrent pregnancy loss were included in the study. INTERVENTION(S) The adhesions were divide...

Objective: Assessment of preoperative and postoperative outcomes of patients that were performed hysterescopic intrauterine adhesiolysis. Material and method: We reviewed 24 patients that underwent hysterescopy with the complaints of amenorrhea, hypomenorrhea, recurrent pregnancy loss between 2004-2008. The most complaints of patients were infertilty amenorrhea. Results: Adhesions occurs mainly...

Intra-abdominal adhesions are a common complication of abdominal surgery and can lead to further complications including bowel obstruction, infertility, and pain. We describe a novel technique of performing transvaginal laparoscopic lysis of adhesions following a total vaginal hysterectomy in a 41-year-old woman with periumbilical pain and menorrhagia. This natural orifice transluminal endoscop...

PURPOSE To assess the results of arthroscopic adhesiolysis for arthrofibrosis of the knee and to investigate possible prognostic factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS Among the patients who developed arthrofibrosis after knee joint surgery, 68 patients who underwent arthroscopic adhesiolysis and were available for at least one-year follow-up were evaluated with regard to the Lysholm knee score, Inte...