OBJECTIVE: To determine usage of polytetrafluoroethylene, Gore-Tex, as a stent in patients with congenital cervicovaginal agenesis. DESIGN: Follow-up study. SETTING: Tertiary center referral hospital. PATIENTS: Eight patients with Mullerian agenesis who had congenital cervical agenesis, associated with partial or complete vaginal aplasia. INTERVENTIONS: Laparoscopic uterovaginal anastomosis with placement of a polytetrafluoroethylene stent for reconstruction of cervical agenesis. In cases associated with vaginal agenesis, modified McIndoe vaginoplasty was done concomitantly. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Eight patients with cervical agenesis who had partial and complete vaginal aplasia underwent vaginoplasty. Mean (SD) follow-up after surgery (3 years old). All patients except three of them, (62.5 %) experienced relief of abdominal pain and regular menstruation. Due to ascending infection three of them (37.5 %) needed reoperation. So, they underwent laparotomy. Two of these three patients had total abdominal hysterectomy and one case tolerated resection of right obstructed side of didelphys uterus, then she became pregnant spontaneously. Four out of these eight cases were married and the others were single. One out of our married patients conceived three times. Her first pregnancy was aborted. She delivered two alive babies after inserting transabdominal Shirodkar suture in her other pregnancies. CONCLUSION: Uterovaginal anastomosis assisted laparoscopy with polytetrafluoroethylene (Gore-Tex) is effective and hopeful to relieve patients' symptoms, menstruation regularity, and saving fertility. If ascending infection threatening health happens, hysterectomy will be recommended.
OBJECTIVE: To determine usage of polytetrafluoroethylene, Gore-Tex, as a stent in patients with congenital cervicovaginal agenesis. DESIGN: Follow-up study. SETTING: Tertiary center referral hospital. PATIENTS: Eight patients with Mullerian agenesis who had congenital cervical agenesis, associated with partial or complete vaginal aplasia. INTERVENTIONS: Laparoscopic uterovaginal anastomosis with placement of a polytetrafluoroethylene stent for reconstruction of cervical agenesis. In cases associated with vaginal agenesis, modified McIndoe vaginoplasty was done concomitantly. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Eight patients with cervical agenesis who had partial and complete vaginal aplasia underwent vaginoplasty. Mean (SD) follow-up after surgery (3 years old). All patients except three of them, (62.5 %) experienced relief of abdominal pain and regular menstruation. Due to ascending infection three of them (37.5 %) needed reoperation. So, they underwent laparotomy. Two of these three patients had total abdominal hysterectomy and one case tolerated resection of right obstructed side of didelphys uterus, then she became pregnant spontaneously. Four out of these eight cases were married and the others were single. One out of our married patients conceived three times. Her first pregnancy was aborted. She delivered two alive babies after inserting transabdominal Shirodkar suture in her other pregnancies. CONCLUSION:Uterovaginal anastomosis assisted laparoscopy with polytetrafluoroethylene (Gore-Tex) is effective and hopeful to relieve patients' symptoms, menstruation regularity, and saving fertility. If ascending infection threatening health happens, hysterectomy will be recommended.