Patient records
Name: Sopheap Chea
Age: 36
Nationality: Cambodia
Diagnosis: Sequelae of pelvic inflammatory disease (tubal infertility)
Treatment Hospital: Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
“All my test results are 'normal,' but the baby just won’t come.” Sopheap, 36, a gentle woman of Chinese descent from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, had been trying to conceive for five years without success. She underwent every possible test in Cambodia, including a hysterosalpingography (HSG), all of which showed her fallopian tubes were patent. She tried artificial insemination three times, all unsuccessfully. The repeated disappointments left her physically and mentally exhausted; she felt trapped in a maze with no way out.
After taking on this case, our medical team carefully reviewed her entire medical history. One detail caught our attention: she had undergone open surgery for a perforated appendix when she was younger. Our health consultant proposed a bold hypothesis: it's possible that the occult pelvic adhesions that developed after that surgery, like a "spider web," bound her fallopian tubes and ovaries, causing them to be "patented" but losing their normal peristalsis and egg-collecting function.
To verify this hypothesis, we precisely matched her with the Department of Gynecologic Endocrinology and Reproductive Surgery at Peking Union Medical College Hospital and recommended laparoscopic exploration. We explained to Sopheap that this is both the gold standard for diagnosis and the only treatment option. The expert team at Peking Union Medical College Hospital is renowned as "microscopic sculptors" in the field of reproductive surgery. Their fallopian tube microsurgical reconstruction technique, magnified dozens of times, patiently separates those hair-thin adhesions, like untangling a knotted tangle, restoring the free movement of pelvic organs.
After Sopheap and her husband arrived in Beijing, we accompanied them throughout the entire process. On the day of the surgery, as we had expected, the laparoscopy revealed her pelvic cavity riddled with membranous adhesions, and the fimbriae of her fallopian tubes were tightly wrapped. Under laparoscopic guidance, the surgeon performed a meticulous two-hour dissection and fallopian tube reshaping using microsurgical instruments. Post-surgery, the doctor happily told us, "The 'spider web' is gone, and the fallopian tubes are now mobile." Four months after the surgery, we received a photo from Sopheap—a positive pregnancy test. She sobbed uncontrollably in a voice message: "Five years! I finally saw the second line. Thank you for helping me find the exit from the maze and clearing the 'origin' of life."