What are the risks of female sterilization?
Even with the greatest care and surgical skill, there are risks with any surgical procedure (surgery risks). When surgery is performed within the abdominal cavity, blood vessels and organs such as the bowel may be inadvertently injured. The majority of female sterilisations are performed with laparoscopy (laparoscopy). There is a one in a thousand risk of complications occurring.
Sometimes it may not be possible to visualise the Fallopian tubes adequately and your gynaecologist may decide to transfer from a laparoscopic approach to an open procedure.
Please click on the required question.
- 1 Who can be sterilised?
- 2 What does female sterilisation involve?
- 3 How failsafe is female sterilisation?
- 4 How quickly does female sterilisation work?
- 5 How will I feel after laparoscopic sterilisation?
- 6 What are the risks of female sterilisation?
- 7 What effect will female sterilisation have on my periods?
- 8 Is my partner's consent required before I am sterilised?
- 9 My family is complete and I want to stop taking the pill but my periods were previously heavy. What are my options?
- 10 What is a vasectomy?
- 11 What are the risks of vasectomy.?
- 12 How effective is vasectomy?
- 13 How do vasectomy and female sterilisation compare?
- 14 Which of us should be sterilised?
- 15 Is it possible for my sterilisation to be reversed?
- 16 Support Groups.
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This is the personal website of David A Viniker MD FRCOG, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Whipps Cross University Hospital, London - Specialist Interests - Reproductive Medicine including Infertility, PCOS, PMS, Menopause and HRT.
I do hope that you find the answers to your women's health questions in the patient information and medical advice provided.
