Hysterectomy with bilateral salpingectomy is significantly increasing in the US and is not associated with increased risks of postoperative complications, a recent study found. The Nationwide Inpatient Sample identified women aged ≥15 years without gynecologic cancer who underwent inpatient hysterectomy or tubal sterilization, with and without bilateral salpingectomy, between 2008 and 2013. Researchers found:

• 425,180 women were included, representing a national cohort of 2,036,449 women.
• There was an increase in the uptake of hysterectomy with bilateral salpingectomy of 371% across the study period.
• There were only 1,195 salpingectomies for sterilization.
• There was no increased risk for blood transfusion post-operative complications, post-operative infections, or fevers in the women who had hysterectomy with bilateral salpingectomy compared with those undergoing hysterectomy alone.