Reproductive outcome after laparoscopic surgery for ovarian endometriosis – retrospective study

Objective: To evaluate our clinical results and reproductive outcome after laparoscopic surgery for ovarian endometriosis in infertile women. Design: Analytic retrospective study. Results: Surgical treatment in infertile patient should be conservative as much as possible. Laparoscopic surgery has the potential to achieve very good results in the treatment of endometriomas. There are several surgical options in the treatment of an endometrioma. In our department we use laparoscopic stripping of the capsule. During 2001–2003 we operated 70 women with an endometrioma. The average age of the patients was 30.5 year and the average diameter of all endometriomas was 5,0cm. The cumulative delivery rate after surgery was 55,7% (n=39). Conclusion: We present our clinical results after laparoscopic conservative surgery for ovarian endometriois. The achieved delivery rate in our group is comparable to the results published in other studies.