Laparoscopy or keyhole surgery is quite common to treat several causes of infertility . Laparoscopy is a very useful surgery as it can be not only be used for treating infertility but also used to diagnose several causes of infertility. There may be so many factors that are present in the abdomen and the pelvis that we may fail to detect to our common tests. So the diagnostic laparoscopy will add value in detecting the cause of infertility. Apart from that there are several conditions that laparoscopy can help to treat, a fibroid in the uterus that may be causing a tubal distortion, a distortion of endometrial cavity, a tubal block can be treated easily by laparoscopic surgery, when the fibroid is removed the infertility casing factor can be easily be treated. There are several condition like polyps or endometriotic cysts which again require removal for treatment and this can be done with laparoscopic surgery along with several other medications. Hydrosalpix is another condition that can be effectively be treated by laparoscopy. Sometimes the hydrosalpinx may not be diagnosed with the other tests in which test the diagnostic laparoscopy will show us the presence of a hydrosalpinx. Ths hydrosalpinx may be due to infection or tubal block and it is always wise to remove this hydrosalpinx. It may not only help in curing infertility but also it may also contribute to the success of IVF. The presence of a hydrosalpinx is said to lower the rate of IVF success. So that is why removal of The hydrosalpinx or just clipping may add to the success of IVF. Here are other conditions like polycystic ovarian disease that is very common nowadays. So laparoscopic ovarian drilling can help a person with PCOD ovulate spontaneously and contribute to the success of fertility treatments. In addition there are several other cases of infertility that can be treated with laparoscopic treatment, so it is very important that the success area of these surgeries depends on the underlying cause of infertility. Laparoscopic adhesiolysis has also seen to contribute to success of infertility process. So when these adhesions are released, almost 70% of patients conceive spontaneously. So laparoscopy is a very important tool in the treatment of infertility.
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