Abstract
One hundred seventy-seven women aged 41 ± 8 (mean ± SD) years, referred for evaluation of excessive uterine bleeding, were enrolled in an open-label randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of local anesthesia before hysteroscopy in an outpatient population. The patients underwent hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy with paracervical block by 10 mL of 1% mepivacaine hydrochloride solution (n = 87) or no local anesthesia (n = 90) and assessed lower abdominal and pelvic pain according to a 10-point linear analog scale. The mean ± SD pain score was 4.5 ± 2.0 at hysteroscopy and 5.2 ± 2.1 at endometrial biopsy in the 87 subjects given a paracervical block versus 4.9 ± 2.2 and 5.7 ± 2.4 in the 90 women not given local anesthesia, without statistically significant differences. Paracervical anesthesia for routine outpatient hysteroscopy in premenopausal women may be superfluous.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1083-1085 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Fertility and Sterility |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 1994 |
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Keywords
- endometrium
- Hysteroscopy
- local anesthesia
- menorrhagia
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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Paracervical anesthesia for outpatient hysteroscopy. / Vercellini, P.; Colombo, A.; Mauro, F.; Oldani, S.; Bramante, T.; Crosignani, P. G.
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AU - Vercellini, P.
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AU - Mauro, F.
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AU - Bramante, T.
AU - Crosignani, P. G.
PY - 1994
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N2 - One hundred seventy-seven women aged 41 ± 8 (mean ± SD) years, referred for evaluation of excessive uterine bleeding, were enrolled in an open-label randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of local anesthesia before hysteroscopy in an outpatient population. The patients underwent hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy with paracervical block by 10 mL of 1% mepivacaine hydrochloride solution (n = 87) or no local anesthesia (n = 90) and assessed lower abdominal and pelvic pain according to a 10-point linear analog scale. The mean ± SD pain score was 4.5 ± 2.0 at hysteroscopy and 5.2 ± 2.1 at endometrial biopsy in the 87 subjects given a paracervical block versus 4.9 ± 2.2 and 5.7 ± 2.4 in the 90 women not given local anesthesia, without statistically significant differences. Paracervical anesthesia for routine outpatient hysteroscopy in premenopausal women may be superfluous.
AB - One hundred seventy-seven women aged 41 ± 8 (mean ± SD) years, referred for evaluation of excessive uterine bleeding, were enrolled in an open-label randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of local anesthesia before hysteroscopy in an outpatient population. The patients underwent hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy with paracervical block by 10 mL of 1% mepivacaine hydrochloride solution (n = 87) or no local anesthesia (n = 90) and assessed lower abdominal and pelvic pain according to a 10-point linear analog scale. The mean ± SD pain score was 4.5 ± 2.0 at hysteroscopy and 5.2 ± 2.1 at endometrial biopsy in the 87 subjects given a paracervical block versus 4.9 ± 2.2 and 5.7 ± 2.4 in the 90 women not given local anesthesia, without statistically significant differences. Paracervical anesthesia for routine outpatient hysteroscopy in premenopausal women may be superfluous.
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