Open AccessMICROSURGICAL REVERSAL OF FEMALE STERILIZATION
Author(s) -
Dahl C.,
Kjaer S. Krüger,
Bagger P.,
Stakemann G.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.3109/00016348809004207
Subject(s) - medicine , sterilization (economics) , pregnancy , pregnancy rate , gynecology , surgery , obstetrics , biology , monetary economics , economics , foreign exchange market , genetics , foreign exchange
. Between 1979 and 1985, 25 consecutive, unselected women (age 28–40 years, median 34) underwent microsurgical tubo‐tuba1 anastomosis for reversal of sterilization. The overall pregnancy rate was 44%. The incidence of pregnancy was correlated to the tubal length after reversal. Of 12 women with tubal lengths exceeding 5.5 cm, 8 (67%) became pregnant. Of the 13 women with tubal lengths under 5.5 cm only 3 (23%) conceived (p >0.04). There was no significant correlation between pregnancy rate and age, interval since sterilization, or the sterilization procedure itself.