Incidence of Complications of Hysteroscopic surgery & It's safety.

Park, Sung Hwan; Kim, Hyung Tae; Park, Hoon Ryang; Ko, Young Hoon; Kim, Joo Won; Kim, Chul

Original Article

Korean Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2001;44(12):2269-2276.
Published online December 1, 2001.

Incidence of Complications of Hysteroscopic surgery & It's safety.

Sung Hwan Park, Hyung Tae Kim, Hoon Ryang Park, Young Hoon Ko, Joo Won Kim, Chul Kim

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Choon Hae hospital, Pusan, Korea.
²Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dong Eui Medical Center, Pusan, Korea.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE
to evaluate the incidence of complications of hysteroscopic surgery. METHODS: A total of 150 patients who was done by hysteroscopic surgery from February 1997 to February 2000 were retrospectively analyzed at Choon Hae Hospital, Pusan, Korea. We classified complications into 6 groups - infection, surgeon-related complication, distension-media related complication, energy source related complication, hemorrhage and others. RESULTS: Overall complication rates were 6% (9 to 150). Surgeon-related complication rate was 1.3% (2 of 150), media-related complication rate was 0.7% (1 of 150), hemorrhage was 4% (6 of 150). And there's no complications of infection, energy-source related, or others. CONCLUSION: Hysteroscopy is a safe procedure if you know the complications of hysteroscopy & its mechanisms.

Key Words: Complications of hysteroscopic surgery, Uterine perforation, Distension media, Hemorrhage