STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the importance of routine minihysteroscopy in the diagnosis of primary infertility. DESIGN: Retrospective study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING: Endoscopic center at a university hospital. PATIENTS: Three hundred seventy-nine patients with primary infertility. INTERVENTION: Diagnostic minihysteroscopy without anesthesia or sedation. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Hysteroscopy was normal in 337 patients (89.9%). In 38 patients (10.1%) an intrauterine pathology was found: 26 intrauterine adhesions, 12 cases of uterus subseptus. The procedure could not be completed in four women. CONCLUSION: Minihysteroscopy should become a routine diagnostic procedure in women with primary infertility, even those with no suspected intrauterine pathology or other risk factors.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the importance of routine minihysteroscopy in the diagnosis of primary infertility. DESIGN: Retrospective study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING: Endoscopic center at a university hospital. PATIENTS: Three hundred seventy-nine patients with primary infertility. INTERVENTION: Diagnostic minihysteroscopy without anesthesia or sedation. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Hysteroscopy was normal in 337 patients (89.9%). In 38 patients (10.1%) an intrauterine pathology was found: 26 intrauterine adhesions, 12 cases of uterus subseptus. The procedure could not be completed in four women. CONCLUSION: Minihysteroscopy should become a routine diagnostic procedure in women with primary infertility, even those with no suspected intrauterine pathology or other risk factors.