title: Adhesions: laparoscopic surgery versus laparotomy.
abstract: This study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness in pregnancy rates of microsurgery and operative laparoscopy in adhesiolysis. Adhesions were found to be the sole infertility factor in 15% of our patients. One hundred and ninety infertile patients with periadnexal adhesions as the only cause of their infertility were treated by microsurgery (86) or operative laparoscopy (104) and were followed up for 24 months. Our results indicate that advanced laparoscopic surgery in general is as effective as microsurgery in healthy infertile patients with adhesions but offers some advantages in comparison to laparotomy. Factors that adversely affect the postoperative success rates are the age of the women, the duration of infertility, and the severity of the adhesions.
authors.affiliation: Infertility Department, University of Athens, Alexandra Maternity Hospital, Greece.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Milingos
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kallipolitis
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Loutradis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Liapi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mavrommatis
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Drakakis
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tourikis
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Creatsas
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Michalas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000209:etiology; D010535:Laparoscopy; D007813:Laparotomy; D008866:Microsurgery; D010532:Peritoneal Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011247:Pregnancy; D012008:Recurrence; D000267:Tissue Adhesions / Q000601:surgery