Significance of hysteroscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of infertility

Hysteroscopy is an excellent additional instrument for evaluating the uterine characteristics in infertile women. Retrospective study analyses the importance of hysteroscopy in diagnostic and treatment of infertility. Patients were selected from 1st Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology Ia?i during 1997 and 2004. Study group included 602 hysteroscopy performed in our clinic with 480 cases of infertility. 28.9% were primary infertility and 49.1% were secondary infertility, rest of percentage been intrauterine synechia, septum, polyps and foreign bodies. Polyp ablation located near the tubal ostia (50 cases), synechia repair (90 cases), were the most common operative procedures. Good results in removal of foreign bodies (16 cases) were obtained pregnancy rate more than 75%. Operative hysteroscopy is similar to diagnostic hysteroscopy except that a ideal hysteroscope is used to allow operating instruments such as scissors, biopsy forceps, electrosurgical or laser instruments, and graspers to be placed into the uterine cavity through a channel in the operative hysteroscope. Fibroids, synechia, and polyps can be removed from inside the uterus. Congenital abnormalities, such as uterine septum, may also be corrected through the hysteroscope.