An advance that goes against scientific ideas

From this study * conducted at the University of Dundee, based on the medical records of more than half a million British women **, two essential scientific elements for fertility research emerge. The first demonstrates that the operation of appendicitis, feared by some doctors for its side effects on fertility, does not cause any decline in fertility in women operated.

British researchers thus provide reassuring data for "surgical candidates" who are of childbearing age, though, and this is one of its limitations, the study says nothing about complicated appendicates of perforation or peritonitis.

Women who had their appendix removed seem to be more fertile

In fact, researchers are looking very seriously at the possibility that appendix surgery may have increased the chances of getting pregnant.

One of the researchers, Dr. Sami Shimi, told the BBC News that this study confirmed "without a doubt that organ movement in women with chronic or significant inflammation improves their chances of pregnancy" . Among his first conclusions published in Fertility and Sterility **, he opts for the thesis that:

The displacement of the tissue that causes a change in the immune system would be beneficial to the reproductive system.

Warning ! If these results give a new shine of light on scientific research to treat female infertility, they also do not suggest removing the appendix from infertile women will increase their chance of procreation.

But this is the beginning of a new hope for a better understanding of infertility or rather of improving the chances of procreation for 33% of women. And of which 10% of the cases remain unexplained according to the site fertility-info.

* Publlication in Fertility years Sterility, 2012. doi: 10.1016 / j.fertnstert.2012.05.016

** 6,426 patients over the age of 45 who had an appendectomy between 1986 and 2009 and followed until September 2009.