Hysteroscopic treatment of uterine septa.
Patients with septate uterus usually undergo reproductive failures with recurrent abortions and premature deliveries. Up till now surgical therapy for such a defect has relied on different abdominal metroplasty procedures reflecting the need to establish normal anatomy and physiology of the uterus. Nowadays, wide experience accumulated in hysteroscopic management of intrauterine adhesions, has allowed the incision of the uterine septa with the hysteroscopic technique. In this report the Authors describe the surgical technique of the hysteroscopic metroplasty in eleven cases. Initial results are encouraging: surgical outcome is good, with no intra- or postoperative morbidity; if the pregnancy outcome rate confirms these results, then the traditional abdominal surgical approach should become an out-moded therapy, so making hysteroscopic metroplasty the treatment of choice for the uterine septa.
D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D011247:Pregnancy; D014599:Uterus / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery