Diagnose infertility with Laparoscopy

What is Laparoscopy?

Laparoscopy is a surgical procedure used by doctors use to look at uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, and other pelvic organs. It is used to identify reasons which cause infertility such as fibroids, scar tissue, endometriosis, blocked tubes.

Laparoscopic Procedure

A fiber optic camera, called a laparoscope, is inserted through the belly button to these organs to be seen. One to three other 1 centimeter incisions are made in your lower abdomen to introduce instruments to allow any surgical repair needed.
Laparoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure used as a diagnostic tool and surgical procedure that is performed to examine the abdominal and pelvic organs, used to examine the abdominal and pemc organs.
Tissue samples can also be collected for biopsy using laparoscopy and malignancies treated when it is combined with other therapies.

Time Duration to perform Laparoscopic Procedure

It may take from 30 minutes to 2 hours. Patient will stay in a recovery room for a few hours after the procedure to wake up from the anesthesia. Patient should have someone to stay with you for the next 24 hours after the procedure.

Recovery time for laparoscopy

When your laparoscopy is completed, you will be observed for several hours before you are released from the hospital. Your condition is evaluated based on following things: 1) your overall physical condition (2) the type of anesthesia used & (3) your body's reaction to the procedure.
In some cases, you may have to remain overnight. You will be taken to a recovery room. While there, you will be checked for any reaction to the anesthesia or the procedure. After your laparoscopy, you can expect to feel slight pain and throbbing at the surgical sites. Any pain or discomfort should improve daily. Your physician may prescribe medication to relieve the pain. You may have shoulder pain after your procedure. This occurs when the carbon dioxide gas causes an irritation in your diaphragm, which shares nerves with your shoulder. The carbon dioxide may also cause some bloating. You should not lift any heavy objects for about a week. You usually can resume all normal activities within a week. You will need to return to your physician in about two weeks.

Advantage of Laparoscopy

• Minor traumas which stand for the abatement of postsurgical pains, a quick (1-2 days) recovery of physiological functions, decrease in the risk of generating postsurgical spikes.
• Short hospital period. The postoperative period is often confined in staying in the hospital during the daytime.
• Reduction of the period of disablement from 2 till 5 times.
• Cosmetic effect. The traces of 5-10mm pinholes are incomparable with the scars left after the traditional "open" operations, which is especially important in the cosmetic sense.
• The risk of postoperative hernia developing is reduced at the expense of the absence of big incisions.
• Economic effectiveness. Although the price for an endoscopic operation is high, treatment comes to be more payable at the expense of the medicament economy, of confinement of the hospital period duration and the time of a patient's rehabilitation.

Disadvantage of Laparoscopy

• Equipments and instruments necessary to perform a laparoscopic operation are incomparably high in price.
• Laparoscopic operations have their specific complications mainly connected with the discharging of carbon dioxide into the abdominal cavity, which in its turn may lead to the dysfunction of organs (cardiovascular, pulmonary, etc.). Due to timely prophylaxis and correction complications certainly can often be avoided.
• The training of specialists for carrying out laparoscopic operations demands quite a long period, and is inseparably connected with traditional surgery. Skills for laparoscopy are gained with difficulty. Experience in performing traditional operations is extremely desirable for surgeons performing laparoscopic operations, because the passing to the "open" operation from laparoscopy is never excluded.
• The risk of damaging anatomic structures is conditioned by the inconvenience of operating two-dimensional orientation - looking at the monitor. A laparoscopic surgeon's long-time training process leads to the exclusion of the mentioned disadvantage from the list.