Diagnosis and Management of Tubo-Uterine Factors in Infertility

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The impact of tubal surgery on early embryonic development in the rabbit oviduct....Pages 5-8
Transport of proteins and water out of an artificial hydrosalpinx in the rabbit....Pages 9-13
Ultrastructural changes of the mucosa in rabbit fallopian tube after reanastomosis....Pages 17-19
Quantitative morphometrical and histopathological study in rabbit oviducts following microsurgical treatment....Pages 21-26
Reanastomosis of rabbit oviducts with monofilament and polyfilament absorbable sutures — a histological study....Pages 27-30
Conventional sutures versus fibrin glue in microsurgical anastomosis of reproductive tissue....Pages 31-33
The tissue reaction to different kinds of suture material in the uterus and the oviduct of the rabbit....Pages 35-37
Prevention of adhesions and restoring patency during oviduct anastomosis in rabbits: microscope versus loupes....Pages 39-41
Inhibition of peritoneal adhesion formation by colchicine....Pages 43-46
Prevention of re-formation of pelvic adhesions by ‘barrier’ methods....Pages 47-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Scanning electron microscopic studies on the changes of the oviduct due to ageing, menstrual cycle, pregnancy and inflammation....Pages 53-57
Chronic histological inflammation and Chlamydia trachomatis in women selected for tuboplasties....Pages 59-61
Specific IgG and IgA antibodies to Chlamydia trachomatis in infertile women....Pages 63-67
Tuberculosis of the female genital system....Pages 69-72
Resistant Ureaplasma urealyticum in infertile patients: a proposed method of treatment....Pages 73-76
Prevalence of Ureaplasma urealyticum in habitual spontaneous abortion....Pages 77-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Aetiology of infertility in patients with endometriosis....Pages 85-86
Peritoneal fluid 6-keto prostaglandin F 1α levels in women with endometriosis....Pages 87-93
Decreased concentration of ovarian LH(hCG) receptor in polycystic ovarian disease and endometriosis....Pages 95-99
Autoimmune phenomena in infertile patients with endometriosis....Pages 101-102
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Endoscopic cytopuncture in the diagnosis of intraovarian endometriosis....Pages 105-110
Objective assessment of medical treatment of endometriosis with gestrinone (R2323)....Pages 111-115
Treatment of infertility due to endometriosis with low-dosage danazol....Pages 117-121
Endometriosis associated with hyperprolactinaemia....Pages 123-126
A newly designed conservative surgery for advanced pelvic endometriosis....Pages 127-129
Surgical treatment of ovarian endometriosis....Pages 131-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Laparoscopic findings in 801 sterile patients....Pages 139-142
Improved laparoscopic fertility testing....Pages 143-147
Combined endoscopic findings in 682 infertile women and 135 women requesting sterilization reversal....Pages 149-152
Diagnostic evaluation of hysterosalpingography in infertile patients....Pages 155-157
Endoscopy of the tube (tuboscopy): its prognostic value compared with hysterosalpingography....Pages 159-162
Comparison between uterotubal insufflation, hysterosalpingography and laparoscopy....Pages 163-166
Diagnostic laparoscopy in primary infertility....Pages 167-170
Laparoscopy in the investigation of subfertility....Pages 171-175
Laparoscopic findings in 375 women attending the Rotunda Hospital Infertility Clinic....Pages 177-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Contraindications to tubal restorative surgery. Proposal for a dissuasive laparoscopic score....Pages 185-188
The cytology of tubal secretions for selection of salpingostomies by microsurgical technique....Pages 189-191
 In vitro fertilization and embryo replacement in relation to tubal surgery for infertility....Pages 193-195
Psychological issues in mechanical infertility....Pages 197-199
Danazol as an ovulation inhibitor prior to tubal surgery....Pages 203-205
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Temporary ovarian suspension for prevention of recurrent adhesions after salpingostomy....Pages 207-210
Pregnancies after terminal microsurgical tuboplasties with early laparoscopic control on the eighth day....Pages 211-214
Laparoscopic and hysteroscopic CO 2 laser procedures in infertility....Pages 215-218
Microsurgical technique for selective removal of tubocornual polyps....Pages 219-222
Therapy and long-term results after different operative procedures for extrauterine pregnancy....Pages 225-228
Emergency microsurgery....Pages 229-231
Pelvic microsurgery in an Irish context....Pages 233-234
Microsurgical restoration of tuboperitoneal infertility in 125 women....Pages 235-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Hysteroscopy in infertility....Pages 241-246
Treatment of intrauterine adhesions....Pages 247-250
The place of metroplasty in the management of congenital uterine malformation....Pages 251-254
Psychosexual consequences of Vecchietti’s operation in Rockitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome....Pages 255-258
Canalization of mucus in human fertility....Pages 259-267
Treatment of cervical mucus infection by means of doxycycline polyphosphate in 53 hypofertile women....Pages 269-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-278