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Fertility after hysteroscopic resection of submucous myomas
K Giatras1, A S Berkeley, N Noyes
1Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility, New York University Medical Center, 317 East 34th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Study Objective:
To analyze fertility outcomes after resection of submucous myomas by operative hysteroscopy in infertile women.
Design:
Retrospective analysis (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).
Setting:
Academic tertiary referral center.
Patients:
Forty-one women (age 28-42 yrs) old with primary and secondary infertility, and histologically proved submucous myomas. Intervention. Hysteroscopic myomectomy performed with a rigid resectoscope.
Measurements And Main Results:
Of the 41 patients, 25 (60.9%) became pregnant overall and 20 (48.7%) delivered at term. Seventeen patients delivered a single fetus. Five delivered twins, three at term and two at 33 and 35 weeks. One woman delivered triplets at 31 weeks. The total delivery rate was 56.0%. Two women miscarried, at 6 and 8 weeks. One patient developed postoperative Asherman's syndrome.
Conclusion:
Our results indicate that hysteroscopic myomectomy improves fertility in previously infertile women. Resection is a viable alternative to abdominal myomectomy for submucous myomas. (J Am Assoc Gynecol Laparosc 6(2):155-158, 1999)