pelvic inflammatory disease/fever

The fever index measured the responses of 102 women with serious pelvic infections who had received either chloramphenicol or clindamycin, in combination with other antibiotics. There was no statistical difference in the number of degree hours in the two populations. Patients with

BACKGROUND Recurrent acute episodes of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) often present a diagnostic dilemma. The differential diagnosis should include reinfection, appendicitis, endometriosis, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, persistent ovarian cyst, and antibiotic-resistant bacterial

We report herein a case of ureteral obstruction associated with pelvic inflammatory disease in a long-term intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) user. A 62-year-old woman presented with a 2-week history of left flank pain and high fever, but no abdominal pain. She had forgotten the use of an IUD.

OBJECTIVE (1). To estimate the prevalence of symptoms of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in rural Jamshoro, Sindh, (2). To assess specific social and biological risk factors of symptoms of PID. METHODS Trained females conducted the interviews using a pre-tested Sindhi questionnaire during a

In a case-control study of matched pairs, the risk of acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) was 4.4 times higher in intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) users than in nonusers (p less than 0.001). Of approximately 500,000 cases of acute PID occurring annually in the United States, an estimated

BACKGROUND In 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changed their guidelines for treatment of adolescents with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), no longer recommending hospitalization of all teenagers. OBJECTIVE (1) To determine the proportion of adolescents with PID who were

59 patients with acute pelvic inflammatory diseases proved and classified by laparoscopy were treated by two kinds of therapies in alternating order. Dispensing with physical measures 27 patients were given ampicilline and metronidazol for 10 days, 32 patients being additionally given prednisolone.

The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN) conducted an observational study of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in the primary care setting. During 14 months from 1982 to 1983, 38 practices in 16 states and two Canadian provinces reported 384 first visits for patients with PID. PID, as

BACKGROUND The possible association between acute pelvic inflammatory diseases (APID) of pregnant women and structural birth defects, that is, congenital abnormalities (CA) in their offspring, has not been studied. METHODS The data set of the Hungarian Case-Control Surveillance of Congenital

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a syndrome unrelated to pregnancy or surgery and characterized by lower abdominal pain and tenderness, cervical motion tenderness, and adnexal tenderness. Fever, leukocytosis, and the results of laboratory tests are used to support the diagnosis. Participants in

Although pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a common complaint in young, fertile women, it is quite rare during pregnancy. Clinically it is characterized by abdominal pain, sometimes presenting as an acute abdomen with fever. Since PID has no characteristic clinical or laboratory findings, and is

OBJECTIVE To critically evaluate the available evidence base concerned with the diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) based on clinical presentation, and to investigate the relation between signs and symptoms and the presence of laparoscopically diagnosed PID using the largest available