Table 5.
Cycle characteristics of patients with previous ectopic pregnancy according to treatments.
| Characteristics | Salpingectomy N = 300 |
Salpingostomy N = 155 |
Conservative treatment N = 92 |
P-value1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | P2 | P3 | ||||
| Maternal age (median and range) | 33 (22–45) | 33(23–45) | 33(23–42) | 0.633 | 0.924 | 0.673 |
| Basal serum FSH (IU/L) (mean ± SD) | 8.3 ± 3.2 | 7.9 ± 3.3 | 8.7 ± 3.8 | 0.062 | 0.405 | 0.051 |
| Basal serum LH (IU/L) (mean ± SD) | 4.3 ± 1.9 | 4.8 ± 3.2 | 4.7 ± 2.6 | 0.200 | 0.676 | 0.566 |
| Basal serum E2 (ng/L) (mean ± SD) | 37.3 ± 21.8 | 40.0 ± 25.3 | 35.5 ± 22.8 | 0.310 | 0.579 | 0.212 |
| AFC (median and range) | 7 (2–21) | 6 (2–22) | 6 (1–25) | 0.415 | 0.853 | 0.665 |
| Stimulation protocol (%) | 0.171 | 0.290 | 0.556 | |||
| Long | 139 (46.3) | 81 (52.3) | 53 (57.6) | |||
| Short | 68 (22.7) | 22 (14.2) | 16 (17.4) | |||
| Micro-stimulation | 53 (17.7) | 27 (17.4) | 12 (13.0) | |||
| Others | 40 (13.3) | 25 (16.1) | 11 (12.0) | |||
| Duration of stimulation (d) (mean ± SD) | 8.5 ± 2.7 | 8.7 ± 2.6 | 8.8 ± 2.4 | 0.196 | 0.246 | 0.909 |
| No. of oocytes retrieved (median and range) | 6 (1–29) | 7 (1–35) | 7(1–27) | 0.733 | 0.500 | 0.707 |
| Methods of fertilization (%) | 0.374 | 0.961 | 0.469 | |||
| IVF | 229 (76.3) | 124 (80.0) | 70 (76.1) | |||
| ICSI | 71 (23.7) | 31 (20.0) | 22 (23.9) | |||
| Two pronucleus rate (median and range) | 0.7 (0.1–1) | 0.7 (0.1–1) | 0.7 (0.1–1) | 0.828 | 0.682 | 0.813 |
| No. of embryos available (median and range) | 4 (1–29) | 4 (1–25) | 4 (1–22) | 0.563 | 0.336 | 0.723 |
1We defined the statistical outcomes of salpingectomy group versus salpingostomy group as P1; salpingectomy group versus conservative treatment group as P2; salpingostomy group versus conservative treatment group as P3.