title: Microsurgical reversal of female sterilization.
abstract: Between 1979 and 1985, 25 consecutive, unselected women (age 28-40 years, median 34) underwent microsurgical tubo-tubal 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 less than 0.04). There was no significant correlation between pregnancy rate and age, interval since sterilization, or the sterilization procedure itself.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hvidovre Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dahl
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Krüger Kjaer
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bagger
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stakemann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery; D011247:Pregnancy; D013243:Sterilization Reversal / Q000379:methods*; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal