The effects of diagnostic hysteroscopy on the reproductive outcomes of infertile women without intrauterine pathologies: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Hysteroscopy can be used both to diagnose and to treat intrauterine pathologies. It is well known that hysteroscopy helps to improve reproductive outcomes by treating intrauterine pathologies. However, it is uncertain whether hysteroscopy is helpful in the absence of intrauterine pathologies. This study aimed to confirm whether hysteroscopy improves the reproductive outcomes of infertile women without intrauterine pathologies.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review of 11 studies retrieved from Ovid-MEDLINE, Ovid-Embase, and the Cochrane Library. Two independent investigators extracted the data and used risk-of-bias tools (RoB 2.0 and ROBINS-I) to assess their quality.

Results

Diagnostic hysteroscopy prior to in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intracytoplasmic sper

SUBMITTER: Yang SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9328608 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature