title: Profile of Indian women requesting reversal of sterilisation.
abstract: This is a prospective clinical study carried out on 96 tubectomised women referred for microsurgical reversal to the Pandit BDS Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak and LHMC and SSKH, New Delhi. It was concluded that in developing countries high perinatal and child mortality rates are responsible for increased demands for reversal of sterilisation. Proper pre-operative counselling, age of the women, assessment of marital stability, family size and age of children are important before advocating sterilisation as a method of contraception.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetric and Gynaecology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Puri
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jain
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003267:Contraception / Q000379:methods; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003906:Developing Countries; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007194:India; D011446:Prospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013243:Sterilization Reversal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends*; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*