Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Hellenic Fertility and Sterility Society and the British Fertility Society, Rhodes, 29-30 April 1983

Abstract

SummaryTuberculosis of the female genital system is still one of the main causes of infertility in our country. The incidence in Greece was as high as 2.5 per cent of gynaecological patients between the years 1945 and 1953 but dropped to 1.0 and 0.4 per cent during 1953-1962 and 1962-1966 respectively.In 6575 gynaecological operations in our hospital from 1967 to 1976 there were 42 cases of tuberculosis of the genital system, an incidence of 0.64 per cent. Thirty-three were in the reproductive period of life (21-44 years old) and 9 were postmenopausal (ages 48-61). All 42 were married and 35 of them (83 per cent) had never been pregnant. The remaining 7 reported one to three pregnancies in the past. The main reason for admission to hospital is shown in the Table. In our previous work in 1962-1966 primary sterility was a much commoner complaint. Previous extragenital tuberculosis was reported by 8 patients (19 per cent) while another 6 patients gave a more indefinite history. All these patients reported th...