title: [Clinical efficacy of Chinese herbal retention enema combined with intrauterine douching for patients with endometritis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the clinical efficacy of Chinese herbal retention enema combined with intrauterine douching for patients with endometritis diagnosed by hysteroscopy. They failed in in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)-embryo transfer (ET) treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  131 patients received hysteroscopy after they failed in routine IVF/ICSI-ET treatment. Of them, 66 patients diagnosed as endometritis were enrolled as the test group and 65 patients without endometritis were enrolled as the control group. Chinese herbal retention enema combined with intrauterine douching was performed on patients in the test group before the next IVF/ICSI, while direct IVF/ICSI was performed on those in the control group. The embryo implantation rate and the clinical pregnancy rate were compared between the two groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The clinical pregnancy rate and the embryo implantation rate were 48.5% and 24.2% respectively, while they were 29.2% and 14.9% respectively in the control group, showing significant difference (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Chinese herbal retention enema combined with intrauterine douching could improve the embryo implantation rate and the clinical pregnancy in patients with endometritis.
authors.affiliation: Reproductive Medical Center of Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Shandong.
authors.forename: Mei-mei
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Cui-fang
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Hong-chu
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Bao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004624:Embryo Transfer; D004716:Endometritis / Q000628:therapy*; D004733:Enema / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy / Q000379:methods; D011247:Pregnancy; D018873:Pregnancy Rate; D020554:Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation / Q000379:methods; D017211:Treatment Failure
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal