Tubal Reversal Success Statistics for You

Knowing about tubal reversal success is probably a key piece of information you are wanting to know. That is, if you have decided you want another child and to get your tubes untied. If you are wanting to do it for relief of post tubal ligation syndrome problems, then maybe the tubal reversal pregnancy success rates aren’t quite as important.

So if you are one of those wanting to know about tubal reversal success, you will probably want to also know what success depends upon. A successful outcome depends upon three basic things. These are the method of tubal ligation, your age and the length of the fallopian tubes left after the surgery which, of course, depends upon what happened in your tubal ligation in the first place.

For the remainder of this article, and to discuss those three areas and how they affect tubal reversal success, we will use the published statistics from the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center website. Now those statistics mostly apply just to Dr. Berger’s patients as he has done more than 7000 reversals. You should understand that these may not readily apply to whoever you go to locally that says they will do the reversal, simply because they do not have the experience of Dr. Berger and are not under his tutelage. But these statistics are all we have to work with.

Organizing our list of tubal ligation methods, we will see that you have the best chance if your doctor used rings or clips with a 76% chance. The worst chance is if you had a fimbriectomy which still gives you a better than 50-50 shot. And that’s a better chance than you get with any one cycle of IVF.

With age, you should see that the older you are, the less your chances of successfully getting pregnant. The statistics from the website bear this out. Patients under 30 when they had their tubal reversal have shown an 82% pregnancy rate while women over 40 have only a 41% chance. Bear in mind, however, that the over 40 statistic contains at least two women who were in their 50s when they had a tubal reversal done.

Looking at the length of the fallopian tubes left after removal of any damaged tube portions and the anastomosis, you will find the longer the tube, the higher the rate of success. Women with a 7.5 cm or longer tube had a 80% chance of becoming pregnant while women with less than 2.5 cm of tube left had about a 38% chance.

One last statistic for you to consider is the increase in chances of having an ectopic pregnancy. This raises only by 10% but you should know it as well. One other thing to consider is that getting pregnant and staying that way are two different things. Women who have tubal reversal surgery usually watch their cycles much more closely than most women and are much more aware of when things are happening. Due to this they are better able to make reports back to Dr. Berger. These additional statistics have also found their way into his pregnancy statistics on his website for your review.

Hopefully this article will answer some of the questions you have about tubal reversal success. Just check out our resources below to look over the information for yourself.