Fertility Surgery, Prospective Analysis

Quality Control in Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment of Endometriosis.

From September 2006 a prospective cohort study is conducted among all patients operated at the Leuven University Fertility Centre to evaluate clinical and economical outcome after CO2 laser laparoscopic fertility surgery.

The main outcome measurements are postoperative complications, pain, quality of life, sexual satisfaction, economic life circumstances, cumulative pregnancy rate and cumulative recurrence rate of endometriosis.

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients
• operated at the Leuven University Fertility Centre of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven,Belgium,
• from September 2006 to August 2008.

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients of other than the Dutch language