Efficacy of Uterine Lidocaine Flushing in HyFoSy

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2020-12-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

To evaluate the efficacy of flushing the uterine cavity with lidocaine before Hysterosalpingo-Foam Sonography (HyFoSy) to reduce procedure-related pain.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

*all women who were referred for tubal patency evaluation as part of their fertility workup.

Exclusion Criteria:

• known allergy to lidocaine.

• unprotected intercourse.

• profuse vaginal bleeding and genital tract inflammation or infections (e.g. pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).

• suspected sexually transmitted diseases (purulent vaginal discharge upon speculum insertion), salpingitis or tubo-ovarian abscess).

• psychological or neurological lesions affecting sensation, prior cervical surgery, cervical stenosis.