Complications of transvaginal ultrasound-directed follicle aspiration: A review of 2670 consecutive procedures
This review of 2670 transvaginal ultrasound-directed follicle aspirations found vaginal hemorrhage in 8.6%, pelvic infection in 0.6%, and rare instances of ovarian hemorrhage and pelvic hematoma.
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This paper is a prospective review of complications from 2670 consecutive transvaginal ultrasound-directed follicle aspiration procedures over 4 years, reporting incidence and outcomes of adverse events. Vaginal hemorrhage occurred in 8.6% of cases, with >100 ml blood loss in 0.8%, and postoperative pelvic infection occurred in 0.6%, including 9 severe infections with pelvic abscess; microbiology suggested direct inoculation of vaginal organisms into the peritoneal cavity via the needle as a likely route. Major but rare events included two cases of ovarian hemorrhage with hemoperitoneum (one requiring emergency laparotomy) and one iliac-vessel puncture hematoma that resolved without intervention. The authors conclude the low pelvic infection incidence questions prophylactic antibiotics and note no increased infection risk with preexisting peritoneal damage, but the study does not provide an explicit control for antibiotic use beyond this observational inference. The paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.
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