Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia

Introduction: In Malaysia, infertility affects one out of seven couples. And over the decades, infertility rates in the country have been increasing between 1 0 and 15 per cent. Despite this figure, awareness of this and the treatments available are still lacking. Many are not aware that inferti...

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Main Author: Syed Yasin, Sharifah Nor Ashikin
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Published: 2010
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spelling my.usm.eprints.52834 http://eprints.usm.my/52834/ Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia Syed Yasin, Sharifah Nor Ashikin R Medicine Introduction: In Malaysia, infertility affects one out of seven couples. And over the decades, infertility rates in the country have been increasing between 1 0 and 15 per cent. Despite this figure, awareness of this and the treatments available are still lacking. Many are not aware that infertility is a disease of the reproductive system which in the majority of cases can be treated. Tubal factor accounts for 15 - 30% of infertility in all women in developing countries with high rates of pelvic inflammatory disease. Hysterosalpingogram is an important diagnostic test in the evaluation of intrauterine abnormalities and tubal patency in the infertility workup of female patients. Many studies had been done to assess the accuracy of hysterosalpingogram as compared to laparoscopy as the gold standard. The recent study showed good concordance rate of the findings investigated by both modalities. Objectives: To identify the characteristics, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingography in HUSM. 2010 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/52834/1/DR%20SHARIFAH%20NOR%20ASHIKIN%20BINTI%20SYED%20YASIN-24%20pages.pdf Syed Yasin, Sharifah Nor Ashikin (2010) Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia. Masters thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Syed Yasin, Sharifah Nor Ashikin
Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
description Introduction: In Malaysia, infertility affects one out of seven couples. And over the decades, infertility rates in the country have been increasing between 1 0 and 15 per cent. Despite this figure, awareness of this and the treatments available are still lacking. Many are not aware that infertility is a disease of the reproductive system which in the majority of cases can be treated. Tubal factor accounts for 15 - 30% of infertility in all women in developing countries with high rates of pelvic inflammatory disease. Hysterosalpingogram is an important diagnostic test in the evaluation of intrauterine abnormalities and tubal patency in the infertility workup of female patients. Many studies had been done to assess the accuracy of hysterosalpingogram as compared to laparoscopy as the gold standard. The recent study showed good concordance rate of the findings investigated by both modalities. Objectives: To identify the characteristics, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingography in HUSM.
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title Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_short Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_full Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_fullStr Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_sort characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in hospital universiti sains malaysia
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