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Evaluation of Accuracy of Chromohysteroscopy as A Diagnostic Strategy for Perimenopausal Bleeding

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Last updated: 08 Feb 2025

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Objective: To  evaluate the  role of endometrial dying with methylene blue during diagnostic hysteroscopy to detect new subtle histopathologies missed by the conven-tional hysteroscopy. 
Methods: One hundred patients were included in the study complaining of perimenopausal bleeding with no diagnosed hysteroscopic endometrial abnormalities  nor  a general bleeding tendency. Endometrial dying was done by instillation of 5 ml of 1% methylene blue into the en-dometrial cavity after diagnostic hysteroscopy.    Accord-ing to the pattern of methylene blue staining, 60 patients showed focal dark staining  with a background of light blue stained endometrium  forming (group I), the remain-ing 40 patients showed  non focal diffuse blue staining forming ( group II ). Group I  was further subdivided into group A , B  according to the age with group A (40-46 years) and group B (>46 years)..  
Results: Chromohysteroscopy  procedure  led to the di-agnosis of 48  more  new endometrial histopathologies missed by  conventional diagnostic hysteroscopy  includ-ing 16 cases of atrophic endometritis, 29 cases of simple endometrial hyperplasia and 3 cases of atypical endome-trial hyperplasia.The overall validity of the chromohys-teroscopy procedure was calculated with a sensitivity of  93.2%, specificity of  87.8%, positive predictive value of 91.6 % and negative predictive value of  90%.  
Conclusions: Chromohysteroscopy appears to improve the efficacy of hysteroscopy in abnormal uterine bleed-ing  and  observation of diffuse light blue staining without dark areas strongly suggests a normal endometrium free of endometritis.

DOI

10.21608/egyfs.2025.409772

Keywords

Chromohysteroscopy, Abnormal Uterine Bleeding, endometrial biopsy, methylene blue

Authors

First Name

Omar

Last Name

Naser

MiddleName

K.

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Department of Obstetric and gynecology, Benha faculty of medicine, Benha University, Egypt

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omarkhaled@fmed.bu.edu.eg

City

Banha

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0000-0002-5653-7865

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Yassin

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Department of Obstetric and gynecology, Benha faculty of medicine, Benha University, Egypt

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ahmed_salah@fmed.bu.edu.eg

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0000-0001-6388-5000

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Ali

Last Name

Bendary

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A.

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Department of Obstetric and gynecology, Benha faculty of medicine, Benha University, Egypt

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abendary@yahoo.com

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29

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1

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53578

Issue Date

2025-01-01

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2025-02-03

Publish Date

2025-01-01

Page Start

87

Page End

94

Print ISSN

1110-6352

Online ISSN

2536-9768

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The Egyptian Journal of Fertility and Sterility

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https://egyfs.journals.ekb.eg/

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Evaluation of Accuracy of Chromohysteroscopy as A Diagnostic Strategy for Perimenopausal Bleeding

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08 Feb 2025