background: abnormal uterine bleeding is a common presentation of uterine abnormalities among premenopausal and postmenopausal women. objective: to evaluate and compare the diagnostic accuracy of saline contrast sonohysterography and hysteroscopy for detecting the cause of abnormal uterine bleeding. materials and methods: a total of 65 women with abnormal uterine bleeding were enrolled in this ...

The literature acknowledges difficulties in diagnosing cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) when it is closely associated with a dense chronic inflammatory infiltrate within the superficial cervical stroma. This is due to atypical reactive and regenerative epithelial changes such as nuclear enlargement/overlap and impaired maturation, mimicking some of the cytological and architectural feat...

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a frequent condition of young women, often resulting in reproductive morbidity. Although Neisseria gonorrhoeae and/or Chlamydia trachomatis are/is recovered from approximately a third to a half of women with PID, the etiologic agent is often unidentified. We need PCR to test for M genitalium among a pilot sample of 50 women with nongonococcal, nonchlamydial ...

Trichomonas vaginalis was originally considered a commensal organism until the 1950s when the understanding of its role as a sexually transmitted infection (STI) began to evolve. Trichomoniasis has been associated with vaginitis, cervicitis, urethritis, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), and adverse birth outcomes. Infection with T vaginalis could have an important role in transmission and acqu...

Plasmid-free Chlamydia trachomatis serovar L2 organisms have been transformed with chlamydial plasmid-based shuttle vectors pGFP::SW2 and pBRCT using β-lactamase as a selectable marker. However, the recommendation of amoxicillin, a β-lactam antibiotics, as one of the choices for treating pregnant women with cervicitis due to C. trachomatis infection has made the existing shuttle vectors unsuita...

The prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases was determined among 370 prostitutes in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Chlamydial cervicitis (26.5%) was detected more frequently than gonorrhoea (14.25%) and was associated more often with pelvic inflammatory disease. Concurrent infections and asymptomatic infections were common. Seropositivity to hepatitis B and syphilis were 66.3% and 13.6% respective...

The various problems associated with prospective epi demiolÃ3gica! studies, aimed at evaluating the risk of cer vical anaplasia in women detected earlier with genital herpetic or herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection are identified. Preliminary results are included of ongoing fol low-up studies in 871 women (herpes group) detected serologically, cytologically, or virologically with such...

Objective-To assess correlation between nonspecific cervicitis, inflammation, or exudate on cervical smears tests and confirmed presence of known cervical pathogens. Design-Investigation of women attending a family practice clinic for smear test by microbiological screening for Chlamydia. trachomatis, Mycoplasma hominis, Ureaplama urealyticum, Trichomonas vaginalis, Candida species, group B str...

The literature acknowledges difficulties in diagnosing cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) when it is closely associated with a dense chronic inflammatory infiltrate within the superficial cervical stroma. This is due to atypical reactive and regenerative epithelial changes such as nuclear enlargement/overlap and impaired maturation, mimicking some of the cytological and architectural feat...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the success rates and clinical outcomes of cervical cryotherapy applied to cervical ectopy for symptomatic relief. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 124 women who underwent cryotherapy for symptomatic treatment of cervical ectopy were included in this study. Indications for treatment were: abundant leucorrhoea (n = 114), post-coital bleeding (n = 22), recurrent cervicitis ...