title: [Use of a new ultrasonographic contrast medium (Echovist-200) in the study of the tubal factor of infertility].
abstract: OBJECTIVE. Use of a new sonographic contrast medium (Echoivist-200) for the evaluation of tubal patency and morphology.
  
  
  METHODS
  Comparative study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Istituto di Ginecologia ed Ostetricia dell'Università di Genova.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty women with primitive or secondary infertility since al least two years.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hysterosonosalpingography has been performed on patients using a new sonographic contrast medium.
  
  
  METHODS
  Tubal patency and morphology have been evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This procedure allowed to obtain a correct diagnosis in 86% of cases. 83% of patients had light pelvic pain, 20% of them experienced nausea and vomiting in one case a lipothymia occurred.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hysterosonosalpingography with a new sonographic contrast medium should become the first choice procedure in the evaluation of tubal patency, addressing to the radiological examination only the uncertain cases or cases in which, the presence of a proximal tubal obstruction could be treated by selective catheterization.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Ginecologia ed Ostetricia, Ospedale San Martino, Università degli Studi, Genova.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Valenzano
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ferraro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mansi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferraiolo
mesh_terms: D003287:Contrast Media; D005186:Fallopian Tube Patency Tests; D005187:Fallopian Tubes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007047:Hysterosalpingography / Q000379:methods*; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011134:Polysaccharides; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D011134:Polysaccharides; C040642:SHU 454