[Microsurgical sterility operations in female patients with deficient contralateral tube--pros and cons]

Microsurgical operations of sterility on 39 women with only one remaining tube have been analysed in order to examine the justification of primary operations of sterility on these patients. 13 out of 26 women (50%), who had been followed up for at least 9 months after the operation, have become pregnant. Live birth rate was 30.8% abortion rate 7.7% and the rate of ectopic pregnancies 11.5%. The results correspond to these obtained from women bilaterally operated on, so that microsurgical operations are justified in sterile women with a lacking opposite tube, too. The removal of the opposite tube during the actual operation of sterility is prognostically more advantageous than the exstirpation before it. Salpingectomy has better results than salpingo-oophorectomy.