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  • Title: [Is male and female sterilization reversible? (author's transl)].
    Author: Cornier E.
    Journal: Contracept Fertil Sex (Paris); 1982 Apr; 10(4):225-9. PubMed ID: 12311519.
    Abstract:
    Success of sterilization reversal for females depends first and foremost on the technique used to achieve sterilization and on the site of sterilization. Percoelioscopic techniques and atraumatic surgical sterilization methods, such as use of Yoon silastic ring or Hulka clips, are more likely to preserve a longer and healthier portion of the tube, and to make eventual microsurgery reversal a success. Other factors playing a role in the feasibility of successful reversal of sterilization are the time elapsed between sterilization and the reversal of the operation and the age of the patient. Reversal of vasectomy is easier and more successful than reversal of female sterilization techniques. An added advantage is given by the possibility, before sterilization, of freezing and storing the sperm for future use. For a sterilization technique to be accepted as a contraceptive method, the reversibility rate should reach 95%. In the very best of cases with the present female and male sterilization techniques, the rate of successful reversibility is only 70%.
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