A fallopian tube blockage typically prevents successful passage of the egg to the sperm, or the fertilized egg to the uterus. Surgery can be used to try to correct this common cause of infertility. The specific type of surgery depends on the location and extent of the fallopian tube blockage.

Tubal blockage repair, or reanastomosis, typically is used to reverse a tubal ligation or to repair a portion of the fallopian tube damaged by disease. The blocked or diseased portion of the tube is removed, and the two healthy ends of the tube are then joined. This procedure usually is done through an abdominal incision (laparotomy), but some specialists can perform this procedure using laparoscopy.

The Jackson Clinic’s state-of-the-art, minimally invasive laparoscopic tubal blockage repair procedure offers several potential benefits over traditional approaches, including:

• Significantly less pain
• Minimal blood loss and need for transfusion
• Fewer complications
• Shorter hospital stay
• Quicker recovery and return to normal activities
• Small incisions for minimal scarring
• Better outcomes and patient satisfaction, in many cases

This procedure is performed by specially trained physicians at the Jackson Clinic.  By overcoming the limitations of traditional open surgery, The Jackson Clinic is at the forefront of this revolutionary gynecologic surgery. Patients come to the Jackson Clinic from Memphis, Tupelo, Jonesboro and Paducah.  If you are a candidate for tubal blockage repair, talk to a gynecologist at The Jackson Clinic who performs the minimally invasive, laparoscopic procedure.