Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop a clinical tool, the HFI (Hysteroscopy Failure Index), which gives criteria to predict hysteroscopic examination failure. Study design: This was a retrospective diagnostic test study, aimed to validate the HFI, set at the Department of Gynaecology, Obstetric and Reproductive Science of the Second University of Naples, Italy. The HFI was applied to our database of 995 consecutive women, who underwent office based to assess abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), infertility, cervical polyps, and abnormal sonographic patterns (postmenopausal endometrial thickness of more than 5 mm, endometrial hyperechogenic spots, irregular endometrial line, suspect of uterine septa). Demographic characteristics, previous surgery, recurrent infections, sonographic data, Estro-Progestins, IUD and menopausal status were collected. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used to assess the ability of the model to identify patients who were correctly identified (true positives) divided by the total number of failed hysteroscopies (true positives + false negatives). Positive and Negative Likelihood Ratios with 95%CI were calculated. Results: The HFI score is able to predict office hysteroscopy failure in 76% of cases. Moreover, the Positive likelihood ratio was 1137 (95% CI: 8.49-1521), and the Negative likelihood ratio was 0.33 (95% CI: 0.27-0.41). Conclusion: Hysteroscopy failure index was able to retrospectively predict office hysteroscopy failure. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

Is it possible to predict office hysteroscopy failure?

COBELLIS, Luigi;DE FRANCISCIS, Pasquale;SIGNORIELLO, Giuseppe;COLACURCI, Nicola
2014

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop a clinical tool, the HFI (Hysteroscopy Failure Index), which gives criteria to predict hysteroscopic examination failure. Study design: This was a retrospective diagnostic test study, aimed to validate the HFI, set at the Department of Gynaecology, Obstetric and Reproductive Science of the Second University of Naples, Italy. The HFI was applied to our database of 995 consecutive women, who underwent office based to assess abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), infertility, cervical polyps, and abnormal sonographic patterns (postmenopausal endometrial thickness of more than 5 mm, endometrial hyperechogenic spots, irregular endometrial line, suspect of uterine septa). Demographic characteristics, previous surgery, recurrent infections, sonographic data, Estro-Progestins, IUD and menopausal status were collected. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used to assess the ability of the model to identify patients who were correctly identified (true positives) divided by the total number of failed hysteroscopies (true positives + false negatives). Positive and Negative Likelihood Ratios with 95%CI were calculated. Results: The HFI score is able to predict office hysteroscopy failure in 76% of cases. Moreover, the Positive likelihood ratio was 1137 (95% CI: 8.49-1521), and the Negative likelihood ratio was 0.33 (95% CI: 0.27-0.41). Conclusion: Hysteroscopy failure index was able to retrospectively predict office hysteroscopy failure. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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