Satisfaction and tolerance with office hysteroscopic tubal sterilization.

Objective: To evaluate women's satisfaction and tolerance of hysteroscopic sterilization.

Design: Prospective analysis of case series.

Setting: Gynecology department in a teaching hospital.

Success rate and patient satisfaction with the Essure sterilisation in an outpatient setting: a prospective study of 857 women.

After 857 women with Essure system inserted for tubal obstruction as a method of sterilization in an outpatient setting, insertion is achieved in close to 99% of the women. Physician described the procedure as very difficult in 15% of the cases, mainly due to anatomical tubal anomalis or tubal spasm, and women felt highly satisfied in all cases.