Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

FUND OF PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

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PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE

SIGNS & SYMPTOMS

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DAUDI LANGAT

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) is an infection of the reproductive organs. It usually develops when sexually transmitted infections are not fully eliminated through conventional means of treatment. Ec pregnancy and infertility are the most common effects of PID.

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) is a bacterial infection of the organs of the upper female genital tract, such as the uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries PID is often the result of sexually transmitted infections that are not completely treated with antibiotics. The complications of PID include the scarring of the fallopian tubes, which, in turn, may lead to ec pregnancy or infertility. Each episode of the disk is said to double a woman’s chance of infertility (Carleton, 1994. Each year, about 1 million women in the United States undergo treatment for PID (MSN Encarta, 2008

Progression of the Disease

The most common causes of PID are several types of aerobic (oxygen-requiring) and anaerobic (non-oxygen-requiring) bacteria. These microorganisms, meanwhile, include Neustria gonorrhea (the bacterium that causes gonorrhea) and Chlamydia trachoma is (the bacterium that causes Chlamydia. The transmission of PID-causing bacteria usually occurs through unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected partner sexually active women below the age of 25 are said to be the most susceptible to PID. In the article Women’s Diseases Doctors Miss Most (1994, author Susan Carleton wrote that many women are unaware (that they have PID because doctors may not recognize the symptoms (Carleton, 1994 Should a patient seek treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, these are not treated promptly and aggressively enough with antibiotics to be ambiguous symptoms - vaginal discharge, one of its usual symptoms, can be mistaken as an indication of a yeast infection. In some cases, the patient may be...