Likelihood of Accomplishing an In-Patient Hysteroscopic Myomectomy in a One-Step Procedure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 4

Results of data syntheses.

	Less than 50% of G2 myoma rate in clinical series	At least of 50% of G2 myoma rate in clinical series
Slicing technique in clinical series
Feasibility	0.865	0.706
	95% CI: 0.820–0.904	95% CI: 0.638–0.769
	I^2: 41.8%,	I^2: 0%,
	Begg’s risk of bias: −0.524,	Begg and Egger’s risk of bias cannot be calculated (too few strata)
	Egger’s risk of bias: −1.583,
Complication rate	0.0560	0.0686
	95% CI: 0.0301–0.0894	95% CI: 0.0092–0.1766
	I^2: 31.8%,	I^2: 81.6%,
	Begg’s risk of bias: 0.467, ;	Begg’s and Egger’s risk of bias cannot be calculated (too few strata)
	Egger’s risk of bias 0.972, .
Techniques for enucleating the deep portion of myomas
Feasibility	0.923	0.882
	95% CI: 0.836–0.978	95% CI: 0.835–0.925
	I^2: 96.1%,	I^2: 41.6%,
	Begg’s risk of bias: −0.333,	Begg’s risk of bias: 0.2,
	Egger’s risk of bias −3.913,	Egger’s risk of bias −0.627,
Complication rate	0.0102	0.0393
	95% CI: 0.0062–0.0152	95% CI: 0.0204–0.0640
	I^2: 0%,	I^2: 0%,
	Begg’s risk of bias 0.357,	Begg’s risk of bias: 0.571,
	Egger’s risk of bias 0.169,	Egger’s risk of bias: 0.787,
“Cold loop” technique
Feasibility	0.931	0.854
	95% CI: 0.824–0.991	95% CI: 0.754–0.932
	I^2: 91.8%,	I^2 = 68.6%,
	Begg’s risk of bias: 0,	Begg and Egger’s risk of bias cannot be calculated (too few strata)
	Egger’s risk of bias: 4.870,
Complication rate	0.0156	0.0285
	95% CI 0.0050–0.0318	95% CI: 0.0115–0.0530
	I^2: 32.4%,	I^2 = 0%,
	Begg’s risk of bias 0.667,	Begg's and Egger’s risk of bias cannot be calculated (too few strata)
	Egger’s risk of bias 0.434,

Sensitivity analyses confirmed the aforementioned overall proportions. The results are provided according to subgroups (Figure 2). The overall results in each subgroup are the weighted rate of feasibility and complications.