Role of Hysteroscopy in Patients with Previous In Vitro Fertilization Failure: An Institutional Experience in Rural Population

Overview

Journal J Obstet Gynaecol India

Specialty Gynecology & Obstetrics

Date 2023 Mar 7

PMID 36879931

Authors

Minakshi Pounikar

Deepti Shrivastava

Sapna Sharma

Jitendra Tadghare

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Abstract

Objectives: (1) To evaluate the use of hysteroscopy in the assessment of uterine pathologies, not evident on ultrasonography or hystero-salpingography in women with previous one or more IVF failures and (2) to determine whether correction of such pathologies during hysteroscopy improves clinical pregnancy rates in these women.

Methods: This is a prospective randomized study. The study population included were women with primary and secondary infertility registered at our center, fit into the inclusion and exclusion criteria of this study. The total 180 patients were included.

Results: Hysteroscopies were performed in 90 patients with at least one IVF cycle failure and another 90 patients taken as control with similar demographic parameters. The average duration of infertility between both the groups was not significant. Hysteroscopy was able to detect intrauterine pathologies in around 40% of the cases, which were treated in the same treatment phase. Early ultrasound findings with gestational sac and cardiac activity were found to be significant between two groups.

Conclusion: We noticed clinical improvement in IVF success rate after hysteroscopy. Hysteroscopy may be offered to the patients with previous one or more IVF failures, as clinically some of the previously undiagnosed pathologies could be detected and treated to achieve the positive outcomes.

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