Tuberculosis and Pregnancy

Onm-18: Infertility and Pregnancy Outcome in Female Genital Tuberculosis

Background: Tuberculosis of the genital tract is one of the major causes of gynecological morbidity. Genital TB affects about 12% of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and represents 15-20% of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Genital TB may be asymptomatic but involves genital organs such as fallopian tubes, endometrium, ovaries, cervix, vulva/ vagina and myometrium. The major presenting symptom ...

Pregnancy and skeletal tuberculosis.

Pregnancy and Tuberculosis *

The question as to the best advice to give a young woman with tuberculosis in regard to marriage and what to advise when pregnancy occurs in a tuberculous patient have been controversial problems in our profession for many years. There are several schools of thought among us concerning the effect of pregnancy on tuberculosis ; none very dearly founded on accurate data. One group holds that preg...

Tuberculosis in Women: Pregnancy and Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis in Pregnancy

Tuberculosis (TB) during pregnancy and in the perinatal period was once considered to be an infrequent event in the United States. After a decade of steady decline, however, the disease has begun a resurgence. According to the CDC, a 20% increase in the number of reported cases occurred between 1985 and 1992. The factors associated with this increase are the emergence of human immunodeficiency ...