Bacteriology of Fallopian Tube in Relation to Puerperal Sterilization

Abstract

About 50 per cent of postpartum women harbour micro-organisms in their Fallopian tubes in the puerperium. In most patients the organisms are present in both tubes, but occasionally they are recoverable from one tube only. The presence of micro-organisms in the Fallopian tube in the early puerperium does not seem to be related to pregnancy disease, surgical induction of labour, operative delivery, indication for sterilization or the delivery-sterilization interval; neither does it significantly increase the incidence of post-sterilization pyrexia, nor require any treatment in itself.