Antoine Watrelot

Reproductive surgery is quite a wide specialty which includes uterine surgery, ovarian surgery, endometriosis and, of course, tubal surgery. Because of the amazing results of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), some people thought that this surge…

BACKGROUND: Subtle distal fallopian tube abnormalities are a group of diseases characterised by small variations in tubal anatomy. The clinical significance of these abnormalities need to be studied. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this multice…

Research questionWhat are conception rates and pregnancy outcomes after laparoscopic treatment of subtle distal tubal abnormalities among infertile women, and which factors relate to natural conception?DesignProspective cohort study (n = 23…

National and international guidelines recommend referring patients with severe forms of endometriosis to expert centers. However, there is a lack of clear criteria to define an expert center. We examined the roles of surgeon and hospital pr…

ObjectivesTo study the feasibility and results (live-birth and complication rates) of placement of Essure(®) microinserts before assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment of women with hydrosalpinx when laparoscopy should be avoided.…

ObjectiveTo assess the impact of operative fertiloscopy on fertility.Patients and methodsA retrospective study over a period of 3 years of 67 consecutive patients who received operative fertiloscopy and were followed over an 18 months perio…

Fertiloscopy is performed as an ambulatory technique. There are five steps in this procedure: hydropelviscopy, dye test, salpingoscopy, microsalpingoscopy, and hysteroscopy. One of the prerequisite of operative fertiloscopy was to be as eff…

Hysterosalpingo-contrast-sonography (HyCoSy) using saline and Echovist is a well tolerated outpatient technique that provides a significant amount of information of relevance to the infertile woman that is not obtainable at hysterosalpingog…

We have defined fertiloscopy as the combination in one investigation of transvaginal hydropelviscopy, dye-test, optional salpingoscopy, and hysteroscopy, performed on an outpatient basis under local anaesthesia or neuroleptanalgesia. We hav…