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Laparoscopic microsurgical tubal reanastomosis: a preliminary study
M Turan Cetin1, S Cansun Demir, L Toksöz
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cukurova, Balcali, Adana, Turkey.
Objective:
To determine the effect of laparoscopic reversal of tubal sterilization on pregnancy rate.
Methods:
Eight patients who underwent laparoscopic tubal reversal between March 1999 and 31 December 2001 were evaluated.
Results:
Four of eight patients who had had laparoscopic tubal reversal became pregnant. Three have delivered; pregnancy in the fourth woman is ongoing. To date, the other four patients are still not pregnant. Two ofthese four cases have tubal patency but have not achieved pregnancy; in the other two cases, the operation was unsuccessful and tubal patency did not occur.
Conclusion:
In our preliminary study, the pregnancy rate was 50%.