Umezaki C, Katayama KP, Jones HW Jr.
PIP: Current practices at Johns Hopkins Hospital with regard to surgery for tubal disease are presented. Statistical support for a particular point could not always be provided, but overall end results are given. Between 1965 and 1972, 66 patients at the Johns Hopkins Hospital had tuboplasties: 24 salpingolyses, 18 fimbrioplasties, 6 anastomoses, 8 cornual implantations, and 10 multiple procedures. The average patient age was 29.3. The duration of infertility was between 8 months and 10 years, with an average of 53.2 months. 41 of the patients had primary and 25 had secondary infertility. The operations of lysis of adhesions were done for patients whose hysterosalpingograms or dye studies at endoscopy showed patent tubes where peritubal adhesions were visualized. Fimbrioplasty has proved to be the most frustrating operation. Resection and anastomosis was almost exclusively done for repair of the tubes after surgical ligation. A high percent of good results are expected after cornual implantation. The pregnancy rates after correction of obstruction at various sites were 58% for salpingolysis, 22% for fimbrioplasty, 50% for midtubal obstructure, 38% for cornual implantation, and 20% for multiple procedures. The overall pregnancy rate was 39.4%. These rates depended on the length of the followup: the shorter the duration of followup, the lower the pregnancy rate. In order to circumvent this problem, expectancies of pregnancy, when followed up for an indefinite time, were calculated by computer. By this algorithm, it was found that 50% of patients could expect pregnancy following tuboplasties of all kinds: 66% after tubolysis, 40% after fimbrioplasty, 50% after anastomosis, 38% after cornual implantation, and 21% after multiple procedures.
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