Rr. Guirgis et Il. Craft, GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER IN WOMEN WHO HAD ECTOPIC PREGNANCY PREVIOUSLY, Obstetrics and gynecology, 79(4), 1992, pp. 586-588
Eighty-seven women who had previously had ectopic pregnancy underwent
111 gamete intrafallopian transfers (GIFT). Forty-one women had modera
te or severe pelvic adhesions, eight had mild pelvic adhesions, and 18
had had the fallopian tubes surgically repaired. The remaining 20 wom
en had no obvious pelvic abnormality except for the absence of one fal
lopian tube. After stimulation of super-ovulation, between two and 22
oocytes were retrieved and two to four were transferred into the fallo
pian tubes after careful assessment of their condition. Twenty-eight p
regnancies were achieved (25.2% per cycle), with 23 live births (20.7%
per cycle), four abortions (14.3% of all pregnancies), and one ectopi
c pregnancy (3.6% of all pregnancies, 0.9% per cycle). This experience
shows that GIFT can safely produce a reasonable pregnancy rate in car
efully selected women who have had ectopic pregnancy.