[Rifamycin chromopertubation under laparoscopic control (author's transl)]

There is an inherent danger of infection or promoting the exacerbation of an as yet incompletely healed inflammatory process when retrograde perfusion of the Fallopian tubes is performed, as in the diagnosis of sterility by laparoscopy and chromopertubation. Hence, the intense-red tuberculostatic drug, rifamycin SV (Rifocin) was instilled by means of the Schultz Instillator, either alone or in combination with indigo carmine, in place of the conventional indicator solutions, to test tubal patency in all patients under investigation for sterility, whether there was a history of acute, subacute or chronic salpingitis or not. This procedure was not followed by exacerbation of preceeding infection in a single case, which is particularly noteworthy in two patients shown to have extensive tubal and peritoneal tuberculosis.