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REVIEW article
Front. Med.
Sec. Obstetrics and Gynecology
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1537506
Clinical applications, advances, and future directions of hystero-salpingography
Provisionally accepted- Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, China
In recent years, the incidence of infertility has been on the rise, and accurate evaluation of tubal status is of great significance to diagnosis work-up of infertile women. HyCosy has a certain proportion of false positive and false negative in the evaluation of fallopian tube patency. The new third-generation drug or gene loaded microbubble contrast agents will largely achieve the dual purpose of diagnosis and treatment in clinical application, especially transvaginal 4-dimensional hysterosalpingo-contrast sonography, which has great clinical value in assessing tubal patency and perifallopian tube adhesion. This study mainly expounds the selection of current diagnostic methods for tubal infertility, the technical challenges and the suggestions to ultrasonic diagnosis and treatment of postoperative.
Keywords: Hystero-salpingography, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, Transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy, Infertility, Fallopian tube patency
Received: 08 Dec 2024; Accepted: 26 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wang, Dong and Nie. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Fang Nie, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, China
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