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Hysteroscopy in Patients with Repeated Implantation Failure

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Repeated implantation failure is a major clinical challenge and is the cause of considerable stress to patients and clinicians in assisted reproductive technology (ART). Hysteroscopy enables the clinician evaluate the uterine abnormalities such as endometrial polyps, submucous myomas, adhesions, septa, tubal ostia, and inflammatory endometrial pathologies like endometrial tuberculosis and chronic endometritis. Hysteroscopy also allows the diagnosis as well as the treatment of the intrauterine pathology in the same setting, thereby increasing the pregnancy rate in subfertility.

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    Alka Kumar M.B.B.S., M.S.

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Kumar, A. (2018). Hysteroscopy in Patients with Repeated Implantation Failure. In: Tinelli, A., Alonso Pacheco, L., Haimovich, S. (eds) Hysteroscopy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57559-9_21

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