Infertility in young women due to perforated appendicitis?

In a retrospective study the frequency of infertility was estimated in 41 women operated for perforated appendicitis from the catchment area of Huddinge University Hospital. As a control group we selected an identical number of females of the same age, social and national background. About 85% of the subjects in both groups answered the questionary. Excluding a large number of voluntarily childless women, there were 5 instances out of 20 (25%) in the patient group and 1 out of 24 (4.2%) in the control group of unvoluntary childlessness. We found the incidence of 25% of unvoluntary infertility in the perforation group noticeable, although statistically not significant.