Salpingectomy complications after surgery

Salpingectomy removes one or both fallopian tubes. Common recovery symptoms can include abdominal or shoulder-tip discomfort, tiredness, bruising, and light vaginal bleeding, especially after keyhole surgery. Complications can include infection, bleeding, blood clots, injury to nearby organs, anaesthetic problems, or a wound that opens or leaks. Your risk depends on the operation, your health, and whether another procedure was performed. [Salpingectomy](/treatments/gynaecological-surgery/salpingectomy/) explains the procedure, while a [Laparoscopic Surgery System](/technology/laparoscopic-surgery-system/) may be used for minimally invasive surgery.

Follow the discharge instructions for wound care, pain relief, bathing, activity, and follow-up. Keep incisions clean and dry as advised, walk gently if permitted, and avoid lifting or strenuous activity until your surgical team clears it. Take prescribed medicines as directed. Record temperature, pain, bleeding, wound changes, bowel or bladder problems, and any new leg swelling so you can describe them clearly.

Contact your surgical team promptly for increasing abdominal pain, persistent vomiting, fever, foul-smelling wound drainage, spreading redness, difficulty passing urine, or bleeding that is becoming heavier. Seek emergency help for sudden chest pain, breathlessness, coughing blood, fainting, severe weakness, or a swollen painful leg. Severe one-sided pain with dizziness or a positive pregnancy test also needs urgent assessment because an [Ectopic Pregnancy](/conditions/ectopic-pregnancy/) can rarely occur despite tube surgery.

Ask which symptoms are expected for your operation, when to remove dressings, when normal activities and sex can resume, how the procedure affects fertility, and whom to contact outside clinic hours.