What Is Sonohysterography?

Sonohysterography is the method of the ultrasound examination that performs the diagnostic of the pathological processes inside the uterus, in endometrium, myometrium, appendages and for the examination of anatomic uterine anomalies. As a rule, the demand in such kind of examination occurs during the infertility treatment, the determination of the uterine bleeding reasons and the endometrial polyps and uterine myoma diagnostics. Nowadays hysteroscopy is widely used for these purposes.
Hysteroscopy is the method of visual diagnostic of the uterine cavity with the help of special flexible equipment. This method has enough significant advantages such as the possibility of visual examination of the intrauterine formations and performance of many manipulations like biopsy or polyp or adhesions removal. There is also such method of the intrauterine diagnostic as hysterography. It is performed with the help of X-rays. Its disadvantages are that the received image is static and it brings out the unwanted radiation.
The advantages of sonohysterography are:
  1. It can be performed in the way of rather transvaginal or abdominal USD examination, both are possible.
  2. It is not less effective than hysteroscory as the diagnostic method.
  3. Sonohysterogram gives possibility to examine the state of the uterine walls, to diagnose the endometrium changes and to rate the vessel structures of the polyp.
  4. This method does not require narcosis.
  5. The price of sonohysterography is significantly lower than of hysteroscopy.
  6. This type of diagnostics can be performed together with the examination of uterine tubes patency – hydroechotubation.

The procedure should be performed in the middle of the menstrual period to receive the true data without any discomfort in the process. Before it the patient must undergo STD testing and have no cervicitis. 

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