Tubal Ligation Reversal - What Contributes To the High Pregnancy Rate?

Well more than half a million women in the USA decide to have their tubes tied every year. However, within a period of five years following such an operation, around 6% of them will decide that they do in fact what children again for whatever reason. Their best option due to the high pregnancy rate could very well be tubal ligation reversal.

But there are certain factors that play a major part in just how successful the reversal operation is at helping the woman to be able to conceive naturally. The kinds of factors which play a major part in the pregnancy rate are as follows:

A - What type of tubal ligation operation was performed on the woman originally?

The kinds of women who will find it much easier to have a child naturally after this procedure is reversed are those who either have had only a small section of their fallopian tubes removed or where clips or rings have been placed around the fallopian tubes. You will want to have a tubal reversal doctor review your records from the original surgery to learn just what was done during it and how it will affect your outcome.

B - What age are you when you finally schedule the tubal ligation reversal surgery?

For younger women who undergo tubal ligation reversal, it is much easier to conceive naturally than for an older woman. That's the way it goes even without any surgery. The results of one study by a tubal reversal doctor has shown that the pregnancy rate for women who are less than 30 years of age is 82% while for women over 40 it falls to 41%. As for women who sit between these ages the pregnancy rate is also in between.

C - How much of the fallopian tubes are left following the operation?

This is another factor which can determine how easy it is for a woman to conceive naturally following the operation to reverse the tubal ligation. In terms of pregnancy rate, a woman who has more fallopian tube left will find it far easier to conceive than a woman whose fallopian tubes where cut very short. Realize that over time following the tubal ligation operation, there will be some scarring or damage done to the fallopian tubes that will have to be removed during the tubal ligation reversal.

For women who have 7.5 cm or more of the fallopian tubes left, the chances of her conceiving naturally are as much as 80%. The pregnancy rate in women does become somewhat less when more of the fallopian tubes have been removed. Even those women who have less than 2.5 cm of tubes, however, will have a 38% chance of getting pregnant naturally.

As you can see the pregnancy rate in women who have undergone tubal ligation reversal surgery is considerable. It could be well worth your while to seek out more information about tubal ligation reversal as the pregnancy rate is much better than the alternative of IVF for most women.

To learn more about the pregnancy rate expected following tubal ligation reversal surgey, please visit the resources at the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center website at http://www.tubal-reversal.net/ Read the tubal reversal study results conducted on actual patients.