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- Fertiloscopy
- tubal patency
- pelvic inflammatory disease
- questionnaire survey
- attitudes
- chlamydia infection
- general practice
- HPV
- gynaecology
- infertility
- obstetrics
- pregnancy
- anteretroviral therapy
- vaginosis
- AIDS
Bender and colleagues found that relationships between levels of chlamydia infection and complication rates of pelvic inflammatory disease and ectopic pregnancy between and within countries over time were not straightforward.1 Many women diagnosed with a chlamydial infection are anxious about future fertility. Fertiloscopy is a novel procedure to assess fallopian tube function and may be a suitable alternative to the gold standard diagnostic of laparoscopy.2 It is done under local anaesthesia and may involve transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy, methylene blue dye test, salpingoscopy, microsalpingoscopy and hysteroscopy. The main feature of fertiloscopy is that it allows an optical device to be introduced into the tubal ostium to bilaterally explore the tubal mucosa. Optical magnification …
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