title: Government-funding program on reversal of tubal sterilization.
abstract: Three hundred and sixty-one women were provided government-funded sterilization reversal services with the technique of microsurgery. A large majority of reasons (89.8%) for requesting reversal surgery was a loss of children, and the mean interval between sterilization and reversal was 28.7 months. Two hundred and seven (69.7%) of 297 follow-up cases have experienced term delivery or intra-uterine pregnancy and 5 cases were ectopic pregnancy. The largest number of reversal clients (63.3%) were sterilized by the laparoscopic unipolar coagulation technique and the next largest group (24.2%) was sterilized by the laparoscopic banding technique. The highest pregnancy rate (77.8%) was shown in clients who had undergone laparoscopic banding technique while the lowest (65.9%) was the group of laparoscopic unipolar coagulation. A more than 60% of the clients became pregnant within 6 months of their reversal surgery, with the shortest interval being 1 month, the longest 39 months, and the mean 7.6 months. A large majority of the successful cases, 81.6%, were pregnant within 1 year of their reversal surgery.
authors.affiliation: Korean Association for Voluntary Sterilization, Seoul.
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Kwak
authors.forename: Y W
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Whang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005380:Financing, Government; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D013243:Sterilization Reversal / Q000191:economics; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal / Q000191:economics