What’s Standing in the Way of Conception?

Pelvic adhesions can put up roadblocks between you and your future family. Barriers to fertility can include biochemical imbalances or structural problems, including actual physical obstructions such as pelvic adhesions.

These accumulations of scar tissue—resulting from surgeries, infections or endometriosis–can prevent eggs from fertilization or migrating to the uterus for implantation.

Here at Midwest Reproductive Center, we can detect and remove pelvic adhesions.

About Pelvic Adhesions

Scar tissue typically forms at a wound or incision site as part of the body’s natural healing process. Unfortunately, in the case of adhesions this process has managed to get out of hand, creating lumps of scar tissue that “glue” adjacent tissues together or block up tubular structures. In fact, the majority of women who undergo pelvic surgery will develop adhesions to some degree.

Sometimes these adhesions will build up on the outside parts of the fallopian tubes, or they may cause the fimbriae — finger-like structures on the ends of the tubes that guide the eggs into the passageways — to stick together, increasing your odds of an ectopic pregnancy or outright infertility.

How We Treat Pelvic Adhesions

Our own Dr. Dan Gehlbach can perform an laparoscopic procedure to examine your fallopian tubes and other internal structures by making a small incision in the abdomen and inserting a endoscopic camera. If adhesions are found, we may suggest laparoscopic or robotics fertility surgery to remove the adhesions through a few tiny incisions using a device called an endoscope.

We should point out, however, that adhesions can recur, so it’s important for us to time the procedure in accordance with your overall efforts to become pregnant.

Contact Midwest Reproductive Center today to learn more about how you can un-block your road to conception.