[Clinico-roentgenologic diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency of the ovaries].

The paper is devoted to clinico-roentgenological correlations of venous reno-gonadal hemodynamics in 168 women of reproductive age (151 women with infertility, habitual abortion, disordered menstrual function and 17 patients without disorders of the reproductive tract). Clinico-laboratory investigation was followed by visceral and parietal phlebography for the detection of a pathological venous reflux into the ovarian pampiniform plexus. A retrograde blood flow along the internal ovarian vein with the development of venostasis and secondary pelvic varicocele was diagnosed in 67 women with disturbed reproductive function. In 17 women without disorders of reproductive function a reno-gonadal venous reflux was undetectable. Clinico-roentgenological semiotics of chronic venous ovarian insufficiency was analyzed. Infertility was shown to be the main clinical manifestation of ovarian varicocele.