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Vandhyatva (infertility) is failure to conceive or give birth or experiencing Garbha Strava or Garbha pata (repeated abortion). Disturbed lifestyle, usage of contraceptives, stress, genetic problems, alcohol consumption and smoking addiction increases such cases day by day. Nowadays fallopian tube blockage has become one of the burning issues of female infertility. According to Ayurveda, successful conception depends upon Ritu, Kshetra, Ambu and Beeja. Beejagrahana is unable due to tubal blockage (Sanga Srotodusti of Arthavavaha) leads to failure of conception. Panchakarma plays an important role in treating female infertility and Uttara Basti is one of the best (Panchkarma therapy for the infertility treatment in Ayurveda). It detoxifies the uterine cavity and fallopian tubes, which clear the Srothoavarodha. Uttarbasti along with internal medication helps in Vata Dosha saman and remove the Sanga srotodusti. A diagnosed case of infertility due to bilateral tubal blockage, visited our clinic for treatment of tubal blockage and consequent infertility. Here is the case presentation of successful treatment with Ayurveda medicines and Uttara basti.
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Background@#The majority of women described hysterosalpingography (HSG) as a painful procedure. There is little information on the features of HSG-associated pain and factors that predispose to increased pain experience. @*Objectives@#This study investigated preprocedure psychological state and related demographic factors as predictors of pain perception in women undergoing HSG. @*Methods@#The sample included 99 women selected through consecutive sampling at the Radiology Department, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria. The study utilized a cross-sectional survey design to collect data using Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Zung Self-rating Depression Scale, and Visual Analog Scale for the perception of pain and state anxiety. @*Results@#The women with lower state anxiety reported significantly lower pain perception (X̅ = 6.69) than the women with high anxiety (X̅ = 7.93). Trait anxiety, state anxiety, and depression jointly predicted pain perception among the women undergoing HSG, with R2 = 0.117, F (3,95) = 6.797; P < 0.001. They collectively accounted for about 17.7% variance in pain perception. @*Conclusion@#Patients being prepared for the HSG procedure can be educated on concerns related to anxiety and coping strategies and be provided with anxiolytics or other medication as clinically indicated.
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SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: This study aims to examine the effect of comfort theory-based nursing care on pain and comfort in women undergoing hysterosalpingography. METHODS: This randomized control trial was conducted on 126 women (42 in each intervention and control group). Virtual reality glasses group (n=42), mobile-assisted education group (n=42), and control group (n=42). The control group received only routine care. Comfort levels were evaluated at the beginning and end of the study using the General Comfort Scale and pain levels evaluated at the beginning and end of the study using the Visual Analog Scale. RESULTS: The comfort theory-based nursing care (virtual reality glasses and mobile-assisted education group) was effective in increasing women's comfort with painful invasive procedures such as hysterosalpingography and reducing pain. CONCLUSION: It is recommended that a nurse be present in the hysterosalpingography process, providing nursing care services continuously and introducing this program to working nurses. Clinical Trial Registration Number: NCT04676932.
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Introduction: Infertility is a leading psychosocial problem in couples. Diagnostic evaluation of uterine tube is important in the management of infertility. Causes or factors of female infertility can basically be classified regarding whether they are acquired or genetic, age, smoking, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), adhesions in the peritoneal cavity, previous abdomen surgeries, diabetes mellitus, smoking, alcohol, celiac disease, liver and kidney disease and being overweight or underweight can all affect fertility. Proper evaluation of the infertility is needed for better management of the cases of infertility. Aim of the study: To assess the efficacy of Sonosalpingography (SSG) and Hysterosalpingography (HSG) in the diagnosis and management of infertility. Materials and methods: A total 75 cases attending the department with complaint of infertility. Cases between ages 21 years and 44 years were recruited for this study. Duration of this study was two years, from June 2016 to May 2018. All the cases were undergone with baseline transabdominal sonogram, real time transvaginal sonography and saline infusion sonography to examine pelvic region of the cases. All the participants had to undergo SSG on 8th day and HSG on 10th day of the menstrualcycle. Data was collected and sensitivity and specificity of SSG over HSG was assessed. Statistical analysis was done by using SPSS software version 14.0. Results: Diagnosis by SSG showed bilateral tubal patency in 83.93% cases and by HSG showed bilateral tubal patency in 75% cases. SSG and HSG both correlated well (95.3%) and both procedures had similar diagnostic accuracy. In this study, positive predictive value was 95.2% and negative predictive value was 94.6%. Sensitivity was 98.3%, specificity 85.6% and accuracy rate of this study was 95.8%. The outcome of this study indicates that there is no statistically significant difference (p=0.338) between the values of SSG and HSG. Conclusion: SSG is cost effective and radiation free procedure. The outcome of SSG is almost similar to the values of HSG.
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Background: Infertility is defined as one year of unprotected intercourse without pregnancy, primary in which no previous pregnancies have occurred and secondary in which a prior pregnancy not necessarily a live birth has occurred. The objective of the study was to compare the relative efficacy of hysterosalpingography (HSG) and laparoscopy with chromopertubation in the diagnosis of tubal factors in infertile women.Methods: 90 infertile women attending the infertility clinic at Dharmapuri Medical College and Hospital were selected for this study. The study period was from April 2016 to July 2017 these patients were initially counseled along with their partners and a thorough history of both the partners was obtained followed by a general and pelvic examination of female partners.Results: HSG results indicated that 48 patients had tubal pathology and 11 patients had uterine pathology. Of those 11 patients with uterine pathology, 6 patients with synechiae had both tubal and uterine pathology. The remaining 5 had only uterine pathology and tubes were patent in them. The site of tubal occlusion in all those blocked tubes shows that more number of the tubal blockage was seen in mid segment of the tube (24 cases) followed by the fimbrial block in 16 cases. Diagnostic laparoscopy with chromopertubation was performed in all 90 patients and the findings were recorded.Conclusions: HSG has reasonably good sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing tubal pathology of infertile women. But given the high rate of false-positive diagnosis of tubal pathology (29%) in HSG, a follow-up laparoscopy is warranted.
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Background: WHO defines infertility as “failure to conceive after having regular, unprotected intercourse for one year. Factors responsible - male factors (20-30%), female factors (40-55%), combined male and female factors (10-40%) and unexplained infertility (10-20%). Amongst female factors, tubal factors are responsible for 25-30% of infertility. Hysterosalpingography and diagnostic laparoscopy with chromopertubation are widely used in the evaluation of tubal factors of infertility. The aim of this study was to compare findings of HSG and diagnostic laparoscopy with chromopertubation for tubal patency in infertile women.Methods: An observational study, done on a total of 125 females suffering from primary and secondary infertility who underwent HSG and then 97 patients who gave consent, underwent diagnostic laparoscopy with chromopertubation. The data was entered in MS excel spreadsheet and analysis was done using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 21.0.Results: Primary infertility cases were more than secondary infertility cases. Mean age of patients was found to be 28.92±5.33 years. Most common tubal abnormality found on hysterosalpingography and chromopertubation was bilateral tubal block. Inter rater kappa agreement used and significant agreement found between hysterosalpingography and chromopertubation with kappa value of 0.612.Conclusions: From this study authors conclude that HSG and laparoscopy with chromopertubation are complimentary to each other. Laparoscopy helps in identification of tubal and non-tubal factors like intra-abdominal and pelvic adhesions, endometriosis etc. and simultaneously they can be treated while HSG helps in evaluation of tubal factors as well as of intra-uterine factors like synechiae, polyps etc.
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Tubal occlusion is one of the most frequent causes of infertility in women. The evaluation of the fallopian tube is necessary in female infertility. The two most important diagnostic procedures for evaluation of tubal patency are hysterosalpingography (HSG) and laparoscopy. We wanted to compare the diagnostic efficacy of HSG & diagnostic laparoscopy in evaluation of tubal patency in infertility.METHODSA hospital OPD based prospective study was conducted among fifty patients fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion criteria who attended the OPD for treatment of infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata from 1st January 2016 - 31st December 2017. After taking proper history, thorough examination and basic investigations for infertility work-up, HSG and Laparoscopy were performed.RESULTSAnalysis showed that most of the patients were in the age group of 30 to 35 years. Incidence of primary and secondary infertility was 64% and 36% respectively. Right proximal and distal blockage in HSG, and DL were 56% and 40% in HSG and 48% and 28% in DL respectively. p=0.0001. Left proximal and distal blockage in HSG and DL were 32% and 56 % in HSG and 40% and 28 % in DL. Right and left hydrosalpinx on HSG and DL were 32% and 12% in HSG and 40% and 16 % in DL. p<0.005. Right and left peri-tubal adhesions on HSG and DL were 36% and 20% at HSG and 52% and 28 % in DL. p<0.005. Thus, laparoscopy is superior in detection of hydrosalpinx and peritubal adhesions than HSG. In this analysis, the incidence of submucosal, intramural and subserous fibroids was 16%, 12% and 8 % respectively. Incidence of septate, unicornuate, bicornuate & arcuate uterus was 8%, 6%, 6%, 2% respectively. Intrauterine adhesions were detected in 12% and endometrial polyp in 4% of patients.CONCLUSIONSHSG is considered to have a high sensitivity and specificity to detect tubal block. HSG and laparoscopy are not alternative, but are complementary in the evaluation of tubal block.
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Background: Till date hysterosalpingography (HSG) remains the first-line method to detect tubal patency and to find out any uterine abnormalities in infertile female while diagnostic hysterolaparoscopy (DHL) is considered to be the gold standard method, it is during last decades only that saline infusion sonography (SIS)/ sonohysterography (SHG) has emerged as an efficacious method of checking tubal patency and uterine anatomy as well. The present study aims to compare all three methods viz- SIS, HSG and DHL and to evaluate the correlation between these methods.Methods: 98 infertile females of age group 18-35 years with normal Hormonal profile without any male factor infertility, were prospectively selected from the outpatient department of obstetrics and gynecology, GMH Rewa, Madhya Pradesh over one year from 1st August 2016 to 31st July 2017.Results: Diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity and specificity) of SIS was found to be more than HSG for both tubal patency and uterine abnormalities detection. SIS has less numbers of false positive and false negative rates as compared to HSG. DHL was found to be much superior to both SIS and HSG, also detected additional findings in multiple sites like pelvis, tubes and the uterus on the same setting which were missed on SIS and HSG.Conclusions: SIS may replace HSG as a first step screening method for tubal patency detection, as it has more diagnostic accuracy than HSG and better correlation with DHL and has many advantages and minimal disadvantages as compared to HSG.
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Background: Infertility is one of the commonest problems encountered in gynecology. Infertility appears to be a problem in 10-15% of Indian population. Tubal factors account for (20-40%) of infertility. The objective of the study was to demonstrate the role of hystero-salpingography and hystero-laparoscopy in evaluation of tubal factors for female infertility.Methods: Present study was carried out on 70 women attending the gynaecology OPD for investigation of infertility admitted between March 2014 to December 2014 in Gynecology ward, SSG Hospital attached to Government Medical College, Vadodara, Gujarat.Results: Out of 70 patients who underwent HSG tubal block was detected in 34 cases. Out of these 34 cases tubal block was detected only in 17 cases by laparoscopy and chromopertubation. One case which showed patent tubes on HSG had unilateral tubal block on chromopertubation test. Accordingly, sensitivity of HSG for tubal patency comes out to be 0.72, specificity of 0.94, positive predictive value of 97.43%, negative predictive value of 51.61%, positive likelihood ratio of 12.28 and negative likelihood ratio of 0.30.Conclusions: HSG being simple and less invasive technique along with higher specificity and lesser complications. Hystero-laparoscopy is a valuable technique for the complete assessment of female infertility.
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Background: One of the most important and underappreciated reproductive health problems in developing countries is that of infertility. Objective of this study was to evaluate HSC (hysteroscopy), HSG (hysterosalpingography) and ultrasonography in infertility.Methods: This study was conducted among 100 infertile patients over a period of two years. The patients were questioned for the detailed history including socioeconomic status, medical history and previous history of taking any medications and supplements. The recruited patients had to undergo.Results: Transvaginal sonography and clinical examination were done. Transvaginal sonography detected abnormality in 40% of women. 65 women had normal hysterosalpingography findings whereas the rest 35 women had abnormal hysterosalpingography findings. Thirty nine percent (39%) had normal hysteroscopic findings while sixty one percent (61%) had abnormal findings. The study depicts that hysteroscopy has sensitivity (95%) and negative predictive value NPV (92%) whereas that of TVS is 48.9% and 44.9% respectively. Hysterosalpingography has sensitivity 68.3% and NPV 40.3%. Specificity (100%) and positive predictive value PPV (100%) of all the three modalities are the same.Conclusions: The results of the present study showed that each modality provided useful information but no single modality provided complete information for evaluating infertile women. Thus, a combination of all three modalities- TVS (transvaginal sonography), HSG (hysterosalpingography) and hysteroscopy is necessary to evaluate infertile women.
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Background: Infertility is a complex disorder with significant psychological and emotional impact. It affects 10-15% of couples in the reproductive age group. Hence, evaluation of female genital tract is an important part of workup of an infertile woman. The most commonly used methods are hysterosalpingography which exposes the patient to ionizing radiation and laparoscopy which is invasive. This calls for the need of a low risk method that would be suited for ambulatory application. Saline infusion sonohysterography is a cost-effective, safe, non-invasive and a rapid procedure to visualize the female pelvic organ in evaluation of infertility. The objective of this study was to compare diagnostic accuracy of saline infusion sonography (SIS) over conventional hysterosalingography (HSG) for evaluation of female infertility.Methods: Total 50 patients who presented to the gynecology OPD between 2018 to September 2019 for evaluation of infertility were included for the study. The results of the two procedures were compared.Results: For evaluation of uterine cavity, SIS had a sensitivity of 95%, specificity of 100%, PPV of 100%, NPV 75% and a sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 100%, PPV of 91%, NPV of 100% for tubal patency as compared to HSG.Conclusions: For evaluation of uterine cavity, SIS had a sensitivity of 95%, specificity of 100%, PPV of 100%, NPV 75% and a sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 100%, PPV of 91%, NPV of 100% for tubal patency as compared to HSG.
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BACKGROUND : Infertility nowadays has become a medical as well as social problem.Laboratory findings alone is inconclusive in diagnosing infertility.HSG is the radiographic technique for evaluation of uterine cavity & fallopian tubes..Direct visualization of abdominal and pelvic organs in laparoscopy allows a definite diagnosis where clinical examination & less invasive techniques such as ultrasound & HSG fail to identify the abnormality. AIMS & OBJECTIVES :To determine the role of HSG in the evaluation of infertility & to correlate its findings with laparoscopy. METHODS : 75 infertile females aged between 20-40 years were included. HSG & laparoscopy was performed in all patients & findings were analysed. RESULTS : Sensitivity of HSG was 80 %,specificity was 76 % with positive predictive value 63%, negative predictive value 88 % in detecting tubal pathology. Sensitivity of HSG in detecting uterine pathology was 67%, specificity 73%, positive predictive value 39% and negative predictive value 89%. CONCLUSION : HSG has reasonably good sensitivity & specificity in diagnosing tubal & uerine pathology while laparoscopy has diagnostic as well as therapeutic approach.Hence they are complimentary to each other in infertility work up.
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Background: Infertility affects about 80 million people worldwide and one in ten couples. The objective of this study was to report our experience of the contribution of laparoscopy in the diagnostic and prognostic approach of fallopian tubes pathology in infertile women in sub-Saharan Africa.Methods: We conducted a retrospective study in the Gynecology and Obstetrics unit of Yopougon Teaching Hospital over a 2-year period (January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2018) which included 49 cases of tubo-peritoneal infertility diagnosed by hysterosalpingography (HSG) then laparoscopy procedure.Results: The average age was 33 years old. 30.6 % were single. 75% had secondary infertility. 59.2% had a medical history of abortion. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and pelvic surgery accounted 84.2% and 49 respectively. Laparoscopy showed a predominance of distal tubal damage (66.6%) whose 47% hydrosalpinx. Bilateral tubal patency was demonstrated in 77.5% of our patients during laparoscopy procedure. We observed a sensitivity, a specificity, and a concordance laparoscopy / HSG of 63.6%, 80% 63.1% respectively. Laparoscopy also allowed therapeutic procedures such as adhesiolysis or tubal plasty in 22 patients (44.89% of our cases). At the end of laparoscopy procedure, 35 patients (71.42%) were turned towards IVF.Conclusions: Laparoscopy allows an assessment of tubal abnormalities revealed by hysterosalpingography and the fertility prognostic as well as better therapeutic approach in management of tubal infertility.
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Background: Sonosalpingography has been suggested as the first-line method to study tubal patency. This study is to bring into focus the value of pelvic sonogram in accessing tubal patency in order to overcome the radiation hazard associated with hysterosalpingogram reduce the cost of examination and encourage it at first-line office. Objective of this study was to compare the diagnostic efficacy of sonosalpingogram, hysterosalpingography and diagnostic laparoscopy for tubal patency as a cause for female infertility.Methods: It is a prospective study in 100 patients attending for evaluation of infertility for a period of 2 years were chosen for this study. All cases with primary and secondary infertility who have attended infertility clinic for tubal causes.Results: 68 cases were found to have bilateral patency as per SSG while 58 cases had bilateral patency as HSG. Similarly 24 cases had bilateral block as per SSG while 28 cases had bilateral block as per HSG. 8 cases had unilateral block as per SSG while 14 cases had unilateral block as per HSG. This difference in observations may probably attribute to tubal spasm in HSG. Bilateral patency was observed in 68 cases as against 64 cases in laparoscopy. Out of these 68 cases 9 cases were false positive as bilaterally patent. However bilateral blocks were shown to be 24 in both methods. Out of 12 cases of unilateral block as per laparoscopy 8 cases were detected by SSG. There was false negative rate of 5%. There was false negative rate of 10% for tubal patency with HSG.Conclusions: For low risk subjects for tubal factors in infertility, sonosalpingogram can be employed as a screening test of choice and for high risk subjects HSG and laparoscopy can be used.
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SUMMARY OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate the causes of misdiagnosis in assessing tubal patency by transvaginal real-time three-dimensional hysterosalpingo-contrast sonography (TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy), in order to improve the diagnostic efficiency of TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy. METHODS A total of 162 oviducts of 83 infertility patients were examined by TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy. These results were compared with the gold standard for laparoscopic dye studies, and the misdiagnosed cases were analyzed. RESULTS TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy revealed that 68 oviducts were unobstructed and 94 obstructed. The results for the 144 oviducts were in line with the gold standard, while those for 18 oviducts were not. The accuracy rate of the TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy was 88.9%, and the misdiagnosis rate was 11.1%. The main causes of misdiagnosis included contrast medium countercurrent and diffusion, oviduct spasm, abnormal shape or position of the oviduct, pelvic adhesion, and poor imaging operation. CONCLUSION TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy can well-evaluate tubal patency, and understand and improve the cause of misdiagnosis. Furthermore, the diagnostic efficiency of TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy can still be further improved.
RESUMO OBJETIVO Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar as causas do diagnóstico equivocado na avaliação da patência tubária por meio da ultrassonografia de contraste histerosalpingo em tempo real transvaginal (TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy), a fim de melhorar a eficiência diagnóstica das TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy. MÉTODOS Um total de 162 ovidutos em 83 pacientes da infertilidade foi examinado por TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy. Esses resultados foram comparados com o padrão ouro para estudos de tintura laparoscópica, e os casos diagnosticados erroneamente foram analisados. RESULTADOS TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy revelaram que 68 ovidutos foram desobstruídos e 94 ovidutos foram obstruídos. Os resultados para os 144 ovidutos estavam em consonância com o padrão ouro, enquanto que aqueles para os 18 ovidutos, não. A taxa de acurácia do TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy foi de 88,9%, e a taxa de erro de diagnóstico foi de 11,1%. As principais causas de erro de diagnóstico incluíram contraponto e difusão do meio de contraste, espasmo do oviduto, forma ou posição anormal do oviduto, adesão pélvica e má operação de imagem. CONCLUSÃO TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy pode bem avaliar a patência tubária, e compreender e melhorar a causa do erro de diagnóstico. Além disso, a eficiência diagnóstica do TVS RT-3D-HyCoSy ainda pode ser melhorada.
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Humans , Female , Adult , Young Adult , Fallopian Tubes/diagnostic imaging , Infertility, Female/diagnostic imaging , Hysterosalpingography , Risk Factors , Endosonography , Imaging, Three-Dimensional , Diagnostic Errors , Fallopian Tube Patency Tests/methods , Middle AgedABSTRACT
Tubal infertility accounts for 25%-35% offemale infertility and hysterosalpingography(HSG)isthe first line diagnostic method.In this article,we willdiscuss the HSG diagnostic criteria of tubal partialocclusion,tubal proximal occlusion,salpingitis isth-mica nodosum,hydrosalpinx,pelvic adhesion andpelvic tuberculosis in order to provide guidance in theclinical diagnosis and prognosis evaluation.
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This review introduces the tubal liquidinstillations,hysterosalpingography(HSG),two-di-mensional/three-dimensional and dynamic three-di-mensional(four-dimensional)hysterosalpingo-contrastsonography,MRI-HSG,tubal patency test by hyster-oscopy and hysteroscopy-laparoscopy.We comparesthe advantages and disadvantages of various kinds oftests,mainly the different characteristics of oil-basedor water-based contrast medium,and the high falsepositive rate of HSG diagnosis of proximal obstruction,etc,in order to enable the readers to choose suitabletubal evaluation methods according to the conditions oftheir unit.
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Objective To evaluate the role of 3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance hysterosalpingography (MR?HSG) work?up in the diagnosis of female infertility. Methods Between July 2015 and December 2018, a total of 1 052 infertile women aged from 20 to 40 years in the Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine were prospectively enrolled in the study. All the patients underwent pelvic plain scanning and X?ray hysterosalpingography (HSG) followed by MR?HSG examination, and the patency of the fallopian tubes as well as the abnormalities of the uterus and ovaries were evaluated. Among which 33 cases were randomly selected. The chi?square test and Kappa test were used to compare the difference and the consistency of the two methods in the evaluation of fallopian tubes. Results MR?HSG and HSG had good consistency in evaluating tubal patency (Kappa=0.88, P<0.01), and there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups (P=0.65). The examination of MR?HSG was successfully completed in 97.1%(1 021/1 052) cases. There were 81.7% (834/1 021) cases had at least one abnormality. Bilateral tubal, uterine and ovarian abnormalitiesoccurred in 42.6% (435/1 021), 34.2% (349/1 021)and 46.8% (478/1 021) cases, respectively. In which tubal abnormalities display the results as follows: bilateral obstructed 4.7% (48/1 021), bilateral poor pass 8.5% (87/1 021), one smooth one obstructed11.7% (119/1 021), one smooth one poor pass 12.6% (129/1 021), and one poor pass one obstructed 5.1% (52/1 021). Conclusion 3.0 T MR?HSG is expected to be a routineexam for evaluating female infertility, which allows a comprehensive assessment of tubal patency and other pelvic abnormalities of infertile women.
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Pheochromocytomas are catecholamine secreting tumors of the adrenal medulla, and most commonly originate from adrenal gland. Most tumors secret large amount of norepinephrine, and epinephrine to a lesser extent. The clinical presentations are due to the over activity of catecholamines. Classical presentations are paroxysmal or sustained hypertension with palpitations, headaches and profuse sweating. Both open and laparoscopic approaches are used for the tumor resection. Anesthetist pays a significant role in the peri-operative management. Hyperlactaemia and lactic acidosis can be complications of the surgery. This can have a significant impact on the outcome.
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Objective To explore the application value of four-dimensional hysterosalpingo-contrast sonography (4D-HyCoSy) with fluorocarbon in evaluation on fallopian tube patency in infertile women. Methods 4D-HyCoSy and X-ray hysterosalpingography (X-HSG) were performed in 138 infertile women. Taken the results of laparoscopy as gold standards, the diagnostic specificity and sensitivity of oviducts unobstructed, partially unobstructed and obstructed were compared between 4D-HyCoSy and X-HSG. Results The diagnostic specificity and sensitivity of oviducts unobstructed with 4D-HyCoSy was 96.32% (157/163) and 95.33% (102/107), of partially unobstructed was 97.75% (174/178) and 93.48% (86/92), while of obstructed was 96.98% (193/199) and 92.96% (66/71). The diagnostic specificity and sensitivity of oviducts unobstructed with X-HSG was 92.02% (150/163) and 92.52% (99/107), of partially unobstructed was 95.51% (170/178) and 86.96% (80/92), while of obstructed was 96.98%(193/199) and 90.14% (64/71). There was no significant difference of diagnostic specificity nor sensitivity of oviducts unobstructed, partially unobstructed and obstructed between 4D-HyCoSy and X-HSG (all P>0.05), and the consistency of 4D-HyCoSy and X-ray in diagnosis of fallopian tube patency was good (Kappa=0.887). Conclusion 4D-HyCoSy with fluorocarbon can be used to evaluate the fallopian tube patency, therefore being helpful to diagnosis and treatment of infertility.