Sterilization--the vaginal route revisited

With the use of strict selection criteria it was found that 86 of 161 women who required interval sterilization could be sterilized vaginally. The superiority of vaginal sterilization was demonstrated by the reduction in postoperative hospital stay (from an average of 5,5 days for abdominal sterilization to 1,8 days for vaginal sterilization). Febrile responses to sterilization were reduced from 53,5% to 18,6%, and major complications fell from 17,3% to 1,2%.