Essure: a revolution in female definitive contraception

Abstract

Tubal sterilization is the most widely used procedure in the world for definitive contraception. It is safely performed by laparoscopy, but it is an invasive procedure with potential surgical and anesthetic risks. By hysteroscopy, the Essure micro-insert assures tubal obstruction with no need of hospitalization, incision or anesthesia.

Keywords

• Sterilization
• tubal/methods
• Sterilization
• tubal/trends
• Hysteroscopy/methods
• Hysteroscopy/trends
• Ligation
• Surgical procedures
• minimally invasive/methods
• Surgical procedures
• minimally invasive/trends