Pelvic inflammatory disease
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Overview
Etiology
Epidemiology
Diagnosis
Differential diagnosis
Prognosis
Prevention
- Risk reduction against sexually transmitted diseases through abstinence or barrier methods such as condoms, see human sexual behavior for other listings.
- Going to the doctor immediately if symptoms of PID, sexually transmitted diseases appear, or after learning that a current or former sex partner has, or might have had a sexually transmitted disease.
- Getting regular gynecological (pelvic) exams with STD testing to screen for symptomless PID. [1]
- Discussing sexual history with a trusted physician in order to get properly screened for sexually transmitted diseases.
- Regularly scheduling STD testing with a physician and discussing which tests will be performed that session.
- Getting a STD history from your current partner and insisting they be tested and treated before intercourse.
- Understanding when a partner says that they have been STD tested they usually mean chlamydia and gonorrhea in the US, but that those are not all of the sexually transmissible diseases.
- Treating partners so you don't become reinfected or they do not infect another.
Other diseases that can lead to or be involved in PID
- Salpingitis, any infection of the fallopian tubes.
- Tubo-ovarian abscess an abscess of the fallopian tube or ovary.
- Endometritis
- Pelvic peritonitis
- The Dalkon Shield (withdrawn from the market in 1975 for this reason)
- Bacterial Vaginosis
References
- ↑ Smith KJ, Cook RL, Roberts MS (2007). "Time from sexually transmitted infection acquisition to pelvic inflammatory disease development: influence on the cost-effectiveness of different screening intervals". Value Health. 10 (5): 358–66. doi:10.1111/j.1524-4733.2007.00189.x. PMID 17888100.
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Additional Resources
- Current Obstetric & Gynecologic Diagnosis Treatment. Alan Decherney and Lauren Nathan. 9th Ed. 2003: pgs 729-731. ISBN 0-8385-1401-4
- Carpenter, Griggs, Loscalzo. Cecil's essentials of medicine 5th ed. 2001: pages 623-625. ISBN 0-7216-8179-4
- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 15th ed. ISBN 0-07-007272-8