[Use of a new ultrasonographic contrast medium (Echovist-200) in the study of the tubal factor of infertility].
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.
Valenzano
M
M
Istituto di Ginecologia ed Ostetricia, Ospedale San Martino, Università degli Studi, Genova.
Ferraro
F
F
Mansi
M
M
Ferraiolo
A
A
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
D003287:Contrast Media; D011134:Polysaccharides; C040642:SHU 454