Irrigation technique for detection of Mycoplasma intrauterine infection in infertile patients.

To improve the method for identification of Mycoplasma as a cause of unexplained infertility and to test whether mycoplasmal endometritis could be responsible for reproductive failure, successful endometrial jet washing technique was performed on 59 infertile patients. Sixteen patients (27%) showed positive Mycoplasma growth. Five patients (31%) from this group became pregnant within a few months following an antibiotic treatment. These results were compared with 50 control patients and only 3 (6%) showed positive Mycoplasma growth from endometrial washings. The data reported in this paper support the concept that endometritis due to Mycoplasma of T-strain or hominis can be a cause of infertility.