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Women's Health
Laparoscopy can help infertile women avoid months of unnecessary treatments
March 15th, 2004
Researchers in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggest that specialists should consider the routine use of laparoscopic evaluation when women are unable to become pregnant after four cycles of the "fertility pill" clomiphene citrate. They made their recommendation after reviewing 92 cases over an 8-year period. Some physicians in the past few years have forgone laparoscopy, relying only on a special X-ray image of the fallopian tubes. If the tubes appear to be open, patients then may undergo up to six cycles of additional...
Source: OBGYN & Reproduction Week (2004-03-15)
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