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PID
Pathophysiology
Signs/Symptoms
Treatments
Extra Facts
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An acute inflammatory process caused by infection.
What is pelvic inflammatory disease?
100
Gonorrhea or chlamydia
What is pelvic inflammatory disease initiated by?
100
Heavy vaginal discharge with unpleasent odor, irregular mentrual bleeding, pain during intercourse, low back pain, fever, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, painful or difficult urinatiion.
What are the signs and symptoms of pelvic inflammatory disease?
100
Bed rest, avoidance of intercourse, and combinded antibiotic therapy.
What is the basic treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease.
100
Unsafe sexual practices that increase your likelihood of acquiring a sexually transmitted disease (STD).
What is the cause of pelvic inflammatory disease?
200
Pelvic inflammatory disease affects women.
What is the population which is affected by pelvic inflammatory disease?
200
Pelvic inflammatory disease.
What is the most serious complication of sexually transmitted disease?
200
Sudden, severe abdominal pain with fever to no symptoms at all.
What is clinical manifestations of pelvic inflammatory disease?
200
Uses sound waves to created images of your reproductive organs.
What is pelvic ultrasound?
200
Damage to your reproductive organs and is the inability to become pregnant.
What is infertility?
300
The upper genital tract; the uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries.
What is all affected by pelvic inflammatory disease?
300
A polymicrobial infection.
What is pelvic inflammatory disease usually considered?
300
Symptoms are more likely to develop during or immediately after menstruation.
What is pelvic inflammatory disease onset?
300
Small piece of your uterine lining (endometrium) is removed and tested.
What is endometrial biopsy?
300
Based on history, abdominal tenderness, presence of uterine and cervical movement tenderness on bimanual pelvic examination, mucopurulent discharge at the cervical os, which blood cells on Gram stain or wet mount of cervical discharge, leukocytes, and increase erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
What is the diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease?
400
Inflammation of the ovaries.
What is oophoritis?
400
0.29 deaths per 100,000 women ages 15 to 44.
What is the mortality rate associated with pelvic inflammatory disease?
400
The first sign of an ascending infection, often characterized as dull and steady pain with gradual onset.
What is low bilateral abdominal pain?
400
Doctor inserts a thin, lighted instrument through a small incision in your abdomen to view the pelvic organs.
What is laparoscopy?
400
Develops in women with symptomatic pelvic inflammatory disease; scarring in your fallopian tubes and other pelvic organs can cause pain during intercourse, exercise, and ovulation.
What is chronic pelvic pain?
500
Inflammation of the fallopian tube.
What is salpingitis?
500
Most deaths resulting from pelvic inflammatory disease.
What is septic shock?
500
May be present for sometime before pelvic inflammatory disease develops.
What is asymptomatic cervicitis?
500
People who are seriously ill, pregnent or HIV-Positive of have not responded to oral medications may need to be hospitalized.
What is the treatmetn for more serious cases of pelvic inflammatory disease?
500
In pelvic inflammatory disease, the fertilized egg can't make its way through the fallopian tube to implant in the uterus; can cause massive, life-threatening bleeding and require emergency surgery.
What is ectopic pregnancy?