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    Safety summary

    No relevant studies were identified.

    Anecdotal and theoretical adverse events

    In addition to safety outcomes reported in the literature, professional experts are asked about anecdotal adverse events (events that they have heard about) and about theoretical adverse events (events that they think might possibly occur, even if they have never happened).

    For this procedure, the professional expert noted that there is no data for this procedure in healthy women. Therefore, this overview considers that all adverse events that the professional expert listed were theoretical:

    • surgical complications during laparoscopy: infection, bleeding, venous thromboembolism, damage to bowel or bladder or blood vessels which may require further surgery

    • anaesthetic complications

    • risk of unintended pregnancy (depending on the graft site) and need for contraception

    • restoration of menstrual periods (some women may consider this an unwanted outcome)

    • procedure failure.