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Diagnosing tubal blockage when you have had a tubal ligation procedure is easy; however, diagnosing a blocked fallopian tube from other causes is more involved.

After tubal blockage is diagnosed , the area of blockage can often be corrected with specialized tubal surgery.

The previous blog article, Reasons For A Blocked Fallopian Tube, discussed how tubal scar tissue can block fallopian tubes and cause infertility.

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The tubal reversal doctors at  Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center are specialists in fallopian tube repair.  Although most of patients come to Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center for tubal ligation reversal, others come for fallopian tube repair after a tubal infection or pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), ectopic pregnancy, or previous surgery involving the fallopian tubes.

Fallopian Tube Anatomy

The fallopian tube begins within the muscular wall of the uterus (interstitial segment), leads away from the uterine wall (isthmic segment), becomes wider (ampulla), extends to the widest area near the end of the tube (infundibulum), and ends next to the ovary (fimbrial segment).

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