Blocked Fallopian Tubes | Dr Kaushiki Dwivedee

Blocked Fallopian Tubes – Symptoms & Treatment

Before start Blocked fallopian tubes are one possible cause of female infertility.The egg needs to meet the Male sperm to produce an embryo. The egg is picked up be Fallopian tubes which are thin 10 cms long tubes where the fertilization takes place, which means that Fallopian tubes shouldn’t be blocked for pregnancy to happen.

The tubes can get blocked due to endometriosis, pelvic infection, fibroids, STD, history of uterine infection caused during abortion or miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy.

Most of the time blocked tubes don’t cause any symptom and are diagnosed during fertility investigations which might suggest hydrosalpinx or blockage of tubes in the hystero salpingo grams.

Blocked tubes can be detected by hysterosalpingogram where a dye is injected in the cervix and the flow of which is captured using specialized imaging called fluoroscopy. It is a slightly painful test and patients can choose to have it under anesthesia which decreases the incidence of false positives.

Other tests may include ultrasound, laparoscopy and dye test.

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