About 20 percent of females coming to our Blossom IVF Centre are found to have problems in fallopian tubes. Few of reasons of blocked fallopian tubes are Pelvic infections (PID) leading to salpingitis and hydrosalpinx, Ectopic pregnancy, Tubal Ligation(family planning) surgery, Adhesions following abdominal surgery and Genital Tuberculosis.

Tubal factor infertility (TFI) is female infertility

Sometimes with help of our good intentions and help of latest technology , we can bring abundance joy in life of couples who have lost their children untimely because of illnesses or accidents.

Today, let me share a fruitful story of a patient with blocked fallopian tubes. A poor couple from Kolkata, who had lost 2nd son 7 years before at the age of 5 years due to severe infection in brain(meningitis) and the unfortunate wife had undergone family planning surgery at the time of delivery as they did not want a third child in future.

But after losing her beloved son ,she was under tremendous depression and she could not forget her lost young one. So she was brought to me for counselling and to discuss future treatment options to make their dreams of parenthood real again .

Getting Pregnant After Tubal Blockage

Here I offered them two options, discussing pros and cons of both treatments.

First option was to undergo family planning reversal surgery, though it is cheaper option than Test-tube baby treatment, It is painful as it is major surgery, success rates are less than 25%, chances of ectopic pregnancy(which if remains undiagnosed ,can prove life-threatening) and here as patient was already 35 ,her eggs reserve was also declining rapidly, much lowering the success of the procedure.

So as a second option ,they were offered IVF ,In which after few days of hormonal treatment to prepare her eggs, her eggs were removed from  ovaries with a minor procedure, and fertilisation of her eggs and husband’s sperms were done in laboratory by IVF ICSI procedure.(In normal circumstances, this fertilisation occurs in fallopian tubes ,which was not possible in her case due to family planning surgery) and then embryos made by this procedure were transferred to patient’s uterus after 5 days and after 14 days her pregnancy test was positive and after 9 month ,she delivered a baby boy again. The couple was overwhelmed by having this bundle of joy again in their lives as according to them ,their lost son took re-birth again to make their lives meaningful.