Color Doppler ultrasonography assessment of tubal patency: a comparison study with traditional techniques.
Publication/Presentation Date
11-1-1992
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To compare the results of color Doppler ultrasonic hysterosalpingography (color US-HSG) and x-ray-HSG with chromoperturbation at the time of laparoscopy.
DESIGN: Open, uncontrolled study of women seeking evaluation for infertility from August 1989 to July 1991.
SETTING: Clinical environment.
PATIENTS: Two hundred thirty-eight infertile women.
INTERVENTION: Saline was administered transcervically during transvaginal color Doppler sonography in 238 women. Traditional x-ray-HSG was performed in 89 women. Laparoscopy with chromoperturbation was done in 121 women. Forty-nine women had all three procedures performed.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The frequency of diagnosis of bilateral tubal patency, bilateral tubal occlusion, and unilateral tubal patency after color US-HSG and x-ray-HSG was compared with chromoperturbation. The diagnostic efficacy of color US-HSG and x-ray-HSG was compared with chromoperturbation.
RESULTS: Correlation between color US-HSG and x-ray findings with chromoperturbation occurred in 81% versus 60% (P = 0.0008) of all women studied. In 49 women who had all three procedures performed, color US-HSG results correlated with chromoperturbation more often than x-ray-HSG (82% versus 57%, P = 0.0152).
CONCLUSION: Color US-HSG is an alternative technique to x-ray-HSG in diagnosing tubal occlusion as a cause of infertility.
Volume
58
Issue
5
First Page
897
Last Page
900
ISSN
0015-0282
Published In/Presented At
Stern, J., Peters, A. J., & Coulam, C. B. (1992). Color Doppler ultrasonography assessment of tubal patency: a comparison study with traditional techniques. Fertility and sterility, 58(5), 897–900. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0015-0282(16)55431-4
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
1426373
Department(s)
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Document Type
Article