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Three Thousand Cases of Office Hysteroscopy: See and Treat an Indian Experience.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

Assessment of feasibility of office hysteroscopy in Indian setting.

Design

Retrospective study design.

Setting

Tertiary care centre: Galaxy care Hospital, Pune, India.

Patients

Three thousand consecutive women undergoing office hysteroscopy between 2012 and May 2018.

Interventions

Office hysteroscopy 2200 cases (2012-2017) with Bettocchi 2.9 scope and Hamou endomat. Eight hundred cases (2017-2018) with Bettocchi 1.9 scope and EASI. Normal saline was used as distension medium. With Hamou endomat, settings have drip rate of 200 ml/min with irrigation pressure of 75 mmHg and suction bar 0.15. With EASI, settings were for Bettocchi 4 (1.9 mm) and Bettocchi 5 (2.9 mm) scope with 45 mmHg. Hysteroscopies were carried out by an experienced operator trained in office hysteroscopy. All hysteroscopies were done in early proliferative phase (4th-11th day).

Main outcome measures

Success, failure and complication rates.

Results

Hysteroscopies were successfully performed in nearly 98.66% of cases with 4 patients requiring a two-step procedure due to > 3 cm pathology. One thousand eight hundred eight (62.2%) were diagnostic hysteroscopies, while operative hysteroscopies were performed in one thousand one hundred twenty (37.8%). One patient (1/3000) had a vasovagal attack.

Conclusions

In outpatient setting, counselling the patient for office hysteroscopy played an important role to overcome pain and anxiety, in addition to low pressure, continuous flow irrigation and vaginoscopic approach. Traditional resectoscopic surgeries should be reserved for challenging cases (i.e. endometrial ablation) or for certain pathologies (myomas > 2.0 cm, broad-base, large-size polyps). Recent advances in technique and instrumentation facilitate this approach and might encourage greater adoption by the gynaecology community. With the right approach, technique and setup, office hysteroscopy is feasible with favourable outcomes.

SUBMITTER: Telang M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7516003 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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