title: [Fertility after ectopic pregnancy at the University Hospital in Dakar].
abstract: The aims is to evaluate fertility and medical cost about post ectopic pregnancy follow up. It is about a retrospective and descriptive study about 337 patients who have the opportunity to get a salpingectomy for an ectopic pregnancy between 1989 and 1997 at Le Dantec Gynecological and Obstetrical Clinic. After the ectopic pregnancy cure, women are followed with contraception, just time before trying to obtain another pregnancy. The studied parameters are: age, parity, socio-economical status, level of instruction, obstetrical and gynecological antecedents, Chlamydia serology, hysterosaipingography data, fertility after ectopic pregnancy, fees related to the cost of follow up after ectopic pregnancy. Data exploitation is done through an epidemiologic programme named Epi Info version 5 The average age of the patients was 27 years and that of the parity was 2.70. 87.83% of women were married. More than the half of those patients came from the suburb of Dakar. 171 patients (50.74%) were followed regularly, the other 166 (49.26%) disappeared. A Chlamydia trachomatis infection was found among 23.4% of cases. A tubal obstruction was noted in the level of the horns at 12.5 % of women. No case of maternal death was observed. Among 59 patients who wished a pregnancy, 34 ectopic pregnancy had been obtained (57.62%) in 4 month after stopping contraception and 26 cases of a new ectopic pregnancy. The expenses of medical cure after ectopic pregnancy are about 17.814 to 71,574.65 F CFA with an average of 38,689 F CFA (389.89 FF). Medical care after ectopic pregnancy raises a lot of problems: --some patients disappeared probably because of the inaccessibility of financial cost, --the high rate of Chlamydial trachomatis infection, an hypofertility after ectopic pregnancy. To combat this, we have to insist in the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases in general and of the chlamydial infection in particular. We have also to insist in the early diagnosis of the ectopic pregnancy. At last, we must set up a registre of ectopic pregnancy at the national level.
authors.affiliation: Travail de la Clinique Gynécologique et Obstétricale du CHU de Dakar.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Cisse
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Moreau
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kouedou
authors.forename: E O
authors.initials: EO
authors.lastname: Faye
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Niang
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dionne
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Diadhiou
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011271:Pregnancy, Ectopic / Q000628:therapy*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012675:Senegal