SONG Dongmei, LI Tianzhao, XIA Enlan.
Chinese Journal of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology.
2020, 21(2):
120-124.
Objective To evaluate the value of hysteroscopy in the diagnosis of chronic endometritis (CE).
Methods A retrospective analysis was performed from September 2016 to December 2017, 1320 women were
admitted to Hysteroscopy centre of FuXing Hospital, Capital Medical University All of them underwent hysteroscopy
and endometrial biopsy for histological analysis. Sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of the hysteroscopic features in
the diagnosis of CE were analyzed. Result Among 1 320 patients, endometrial immunohistochemistry CD138 was
positive in 345 cases (26.1%) as the histopathological diagnostic criteria for CE. Hysteroscopy showed that endometrial
hyperemia accounted for 53.0% (183/345), endometrial interstitial edema for 8.4% (29/345), and endometrial micropolyps
for 3.2% (11/345). The kappa value of intra-observer and inter-observer agreement of the presence or absence of the
hysteroscopic feature of CE was 0.86 and 0.73 respectively. One or more CE features under hysteroscopy were used as
the diagnostic criteria for CE. The sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value and diagnostic accuracy
of CE were 60.3% (208/345), 69.6% (679/975), 41.3% (208/504), 83.2% (679/816) and 67.2% (887/1320) respectively.
Conclusion The finding of endometrial hyperemia, micro-polyps or endometrial interstitial edema during hysteroscopy
should be alert to the presence of CE. However, since the accuracy of diagnosing CE by hysteroscopy is still low, it cannot
replace histophiological examination.