How Does A Fallopian Tube Get Damaged?
When a tube is diseased, the cilia of the tubal lining gets destroyed. The tube becomes rigid because of inflammatory scarring and peristalsis also disappears. This is the reason when the patency of a diseased tube is reestablished, it may still be of no value. On the other hand, it may even become a dangerous structure. Even with partial patency and altered functional capacity of the tube, the sperm and ovum meet each other and form an embryo. But the tube may not be capable of propelling the embryo into the uterine cavity. The fertilized ovum continues to grow in the lumen of the tube forming a tubal pregnancy. This can even be a life threatening condition because the tube might rupture as the pregnancy grows, causing a serious haemorrhage in the peritoneal cavity. Tubal obstructive disease may be caused by sexually transmitted diseases and the organisms responsible are gonococci, chlamydia, mycoplasma etc. Diagnosis Of Tubal infertility Tubal patency tests are several. One can intro
