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(sz) An operation to reverse sterilisation of women over 40 who want another baby is significantly more successful and tens of thousands of dollars cheaper than IVF, an Australian study has found.
The study, published yesterday in the Medical Journal of Australia, called for the Federal Government to reinstate Medicare cover for surgical reversal of sterilisation of women, which was withdrawn in 1997.
Live births after tubal reanastomosis were successful in 40 per cent of women aged between 40 and 47, compared with an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) success rate of just 5 per cent for women aged 40 to 42 and 2 per cent for older women.
The direct cost of a reversal is $4850 per treatment, and $11,317 per live birth, compared with about $6940 per cycle of IVF treatment, and $97,884 per live birth for women aged 40 to 42, increasing to $182,794 for older women.
Of the 47 previously fertile women in the study by the University of Adelaide, seven had a first trimester miscarriage and 21 (44 per cent) failed to conceive. more…

From:»The Sydney Morning Herald«

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