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Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques
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2/2014
vol. 9
 
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Comparison of hysterosalpingography and transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy in patients with tubal factor infertility: a prospective cohort study

Deniz Balsak
,
Fatma Uysal
,
Salih Sadık
,
Ahmet Güler
,
Şivekar Tınar
,
Ömür Taşkın

Videosurgery Miniinv 2014; 9 (2): 190–195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/wiitm.2014.41055
Online publish date: 2014/03/03
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Aim: To evaluate the usefulness, diagnostic accuracy, and cost-effectiveness of transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy (THL) in infertile women with abnormal hysterosalpingogram (HSG) results without obvious pelvic pathology.

Material and methods: Thirty infertile women (age: 20–40 years) who had tubal pathology in HSG were enrolled in the study. All patients underwent THL instead of standard laparoscopy. A cost analysis was performed comparing HSG and THL methods.

Results: In comparison of the HSG of cases by considering the chromopertubation results by THL, the sensitivity and specificity of HSG were 85.1% and 56%, respectively. The reasons for preferring standard laparoscopy rather than THL were: failure in accessing of Douglas (n = 3), insufficient monitoring of pelvis (n = 1), hydrosalpinx (n = 1), and intense peritubal adhesion (n = 1), which were 10%, 3%, 3%, and 3%, respectively. The complication rate was 3.8%. Cost analysis of the procedures showed that the total cost of the THL group was 34.8% lower than the HSG group.

Conclusions: In the elective patients group, THL is more feasible than HSG. Transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy is effective, simple and safe, avoiding the cost, possible complications, time and postoperative patient discomfort compared to conventional laparoscopy.
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transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy, hysterosalpingography, infertility, laparoscopy, cost-effectiveness analysis
  
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