Pregnancy outcome after transcervical hysteroscopic sterilization.
BACKGROUND
Hysteroscopic, transcervical sterilization involves placement of microinserts in tubal ostia. As with any contraceptive method, pregnancy can occur. This case reports the outcome when pregnancy occurred after microinsert placement.


METHODS
A multiparous woman presented at 16 weeks of gestation. Hysteroscopic sterilization was performed 2 years earlier, although a postprocedure hysterosalpingogram was not done to verify tubal occlusion. The patient had a normal-term pregnancy. Postpregnancy hysterosalpingogram revealed both microinserts were embedded in the uterine fundus and myometrium.


CONCLUSIONS
This case demonstrates how pregnancy can occur after hysteroscopic microinsert placement and details how it might be avoided.
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA. marie.hastings-tolsma@uchsc.edu
Marie
M
Hastings-Tolsma
Priscilla
P
Nodine
Stephanie B
SB
Teal
Julia
J
Embry
D000328:Adult; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D049168:Pregnancy, Unplanned; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods