[Septate uterus: role of hysteroscopic metroplasty]

The uterus septum is the most frequently encountered uterine malformation. The prevalence of the uterine septa in the infertile patients is estimated at approximately 1%. On the other hand, it increases to reach 3,3% among women presenting repeated fetal losses. The objective of this article is to propose an updating of the data of the literature concerning the cure of uterine septa by hysteroscopic metroplasty. Operative hysteroscopy, with its simplicity, its reproducibility and its low morbidity between the hands of a trained operator, remains the gold standard treatment of the uterine partitions. The abortive disease always constitutes the main indication of the cure of septum. In the infertile patients, a metroplasty seems to be legitimate in the following situations: women more than 35 years old; unexplained infertility, resistant to any technique of assisted reproduction; discovery of a uterine septum at the time of the coelioscopy and the diagnostic hysteroscopy realized within the framework of an assessment of infertility; patients for whom it is assumed that Assisted reproductive technique (ART) is needed; women with past obstetrical history. The complications related to the hysteroscopic metroplasty are not very frequent. However, the hysteroscopic resection of a uterine septum could expose later to the risk of uterine rupture.