If the blockage of your tubes is slight, your doctor might recommend tubal surgery to try to correct the damage.

If you get pregnant after tubal surgery, you shouldn't need more fertility treatment.

If you want to try only tubal surgery, the sooner you begin, the better.

Have tubal surgery Have tubal surgery You stay in the hospital for 2 or 3 days, depending on the surgery.

Your chance of getting pregnant also depends on your age and other things for both tubal surgery and IVF.

Traditionally Fallopian tubal surgery (tuboplasty) was used to restore patency to the tubes and thus possibly normal function.

Results of tubal surgery are inversely related to damage that exists prior to surgery.

For 32 percent, the reasons given for a decision to operate were considered equivocal and for the remaining 27 percent of cases, tubal surgery was considered inappropriate.

He explained that doctors often perform infertility treatments, like tubal surgeries, and list them as a different, often more costly procedure so that patients can secure coverage.

Women can get tubal surgeries.