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. 1997;26(3):250-5.

[Hysteroscopy infection risk]

[Article in French]
L Boubli  1 , G Porcu, J M Gandois, C d'Ercole, B Blanc
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  • PMID: 9265045

[Hysteroscopy infection risk]

[Article in French]
L Boubli et al. J Gynecol Obstet Biol Reprod (Paris). 1997.

Abstract

Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the infectious risk of the hysteroscopy.

Methods: A prospective study was carried for nine months in the Belle-de-Mai maternity, in Marseille. We performed 81 operative or diagnostic hysteroscopies. A vaginal sample was achieved before the intervention and an endo-uterine sample after the procedure. The statistical analysis used the Chi 2 test.

Results: Fifty per cent of the patients of whom vaginal sample was contaminated present an endo-uterine sample infected at the end of an operative hysteroscopy. In 25% of cases, whereas the vaginal sample was normal, the endo-uterine prelevment was infected. The relative risk of the endo-uterine bacterial contamination, in case of vaginal contamination was 8.75 during this procedure. Within diagnostic hysteroscopy, no patient with a normal vaginal sample, was contaminated. No patent infection was observed.

Conclusion: There is a risk of endo-uterine contamination during hysteroscopy. This risk is higher when the vaginal sample is contaminated before the intervention. This risk is smaller than the infectious risk of hysterectomy.

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