title: Diagnostic laparoscopy in infertility: a retrospective study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the role of laparoscopy in the diagnosis and therapy of infertility.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Academically affiliated reproductive endocrinology practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred seventy patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Diagnostic/therapeutic laparoscopy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One hundred seventy infertile patients underwent diagnostic laparoscopy between 1996 and 2000 in our clinic, and 109 of them were seen at follow-up more than 1 year after laparoscopy. Of the 109 patients, 77 (70.6%) were treated with assisted reproductive technology, such as in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer, and 32 (29.4%) were treated with conventional procedures. Of the 109 patients, 68 (62.4%), including 39 (50.6%) of the 77 treated with assisted reproductive technology and 29 (90.6%) of the 32 treated with conventional procedures, became pregnant. Of the 68 patients who became pregnant, 49 (72.1%) of them conceived within 1 year after laparoscopy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Laparoscopy is an important procedure in the treatment of infertility.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan. komor615@hyo-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Komori
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Horiuchi
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kasumi
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shigeta
authors.forename: Yoshiyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tuji
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koyama
mesh_terms: D004624:Embryo Transfer; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D011247:Pregnancy; D018873:Pregnancy Rate; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome