Schistosomiasis as a possible cause of female infertility

ABSTRACT

This study was conducted on 1625 infertile women selected for laparoscopy over a two-year period. All the patients were subjected to urinalysis, hysterosalpingography, endometrial biopsy in addition to semen analysis of their husbands. Laparoscopic guided biopsy of suspicious lesions of genital organs was taken. Histopathological evidence of schistosomiasis was proved in 27 cases. Twenty cases of them had only tubal affection, ten cases had hydrosalpinx and ten had granulomata on the outer surface of the tube. Three had peritubal small cysts formation. Two had tubo-ovarian masses and two cases showed peritoneal nodules. The histopathology of all lesions showed the characteristic of bilharzial ova