North Carolina Facility Specializes in Tubal Reversal Surgery

(I-Newswire) September 9, 2007 - CHAPEL HILL, NC) - Dr. Gary S. Berger, M.D., director of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, has established the only surgical practice in the country dedicated exclusively to performing tubal ligation reversal surgery. Dr. Berger, one of the pioneers of tubal reversal surgery, is a reproductive surgeon who has spent more than 30 years specializing in outpatient tubal reversal surgery.

Widely recognized as the tubal reversal doctor with the most experience with the tubal reversal procedure, Dr. Berger's patients come from across the United States and abroad to have their fertility restored with his one hour, outpatient, low cost tubal reversal procedure. The microsurgery techniques Dr. Berger pioneered reduce tissue injury, blood loss, post-operative pain, the risk of infection, and recovery time.

Dr. Berger has created a unique environment for women who come to Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. Since the facility is dedicated to caring for tubal reversal patients only, patients enjoy a high nurse-to-patient ratio with one or two nurses devoted specifically to caring for each patient. All of the nurses are RNs and have advanced certification in cardiac life support (ACLS) and the anesthesiologists are medical doctors (MD's) with board certification in anesthesia. The other women and couples in the facility are there specifically for the same purpose - tubal reversal procedures.

Although tubal reversal may not be right for everyone, a comprehensive study conducted by Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center in 2006 concluded that Dr. Berger is able to repair the fallopian tubes in 98% of women who have come for surgery and over two-thirds of his patients become pregnant within 10 months following surgery. The study report includes 4,025 tubal reversal procedures performed by Dr. Berger between January 2001 and December 2005. It is the largest and most definitive study in existence that provides information on the outcome of tubal reversal surgery.

At the conclusion of the study interval, 69 percent of the women in Dr. Berger's study had reported pregnancies. The pregnancy rate ranged from 82 percent for women under 30 years of age to 41 percent for women 40 years of age and older. The highest pregnancy rate (87 percent) was among women age under 30 after reversal of a previous ring or clip method of sterilization.

"Many people, including doctors, mistakenly believe that tubal ligation surgery is a permanent method of birth control," states Dr. Berger. Tubal reversal surgery - a one-hour outpatient procedure - rejoins the separated segments of fallopian tube so that eggs can become fertilized and travel down the tubes to the uterus, allowing pregnancy to occur naturally."

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Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center
109 Conner Drive Suite 2200, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
(919) 968-4656

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