title: Experience and results of office hysteroscopy at a primary hospital.
abstract: Our aim was to analyse, retrospectively, the perioperative outcomes of 3,488 office hysteroscopies. Age, menopausal status, parity, medical indications, use or not of anaesthesia, incidents, presence of pathology in the cavity, endometrial pathology, type of surgery and pain assessment details were collected. The mean age of patients was 52.1 years. The most common medical indication was suspicious ultrasound for endometrial disease, and the most frequent symptom was metrorrhagia. We did not use any type of anaesthesia in 89.5% of patients and we could access the uterine cavity in 99.4% of cases. The complication rate was very low though 12% of patients reported severe pain while performing the test. Although office hysteroscopy in outpatients is fully established and is usually well tolerated, there is a group of patients who could benefit from analgesic treatment prior to the test, to improve their tolerance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mataró Hospital , Barcelona.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Carabias
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Celades-Filella
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Zapardiel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alsina-Maqueda
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Genover-Llimona
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014591:Uterine Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D055815:Young Adult