A request for sterilization was furnished by general practitioners and the operations were performed under the National Health Services. The patients were booked and their names placed on the waiting list. A number of surgeons shared the operative responsiibility. Of 238 patients, 65 (27.2 per cent) were between 20 30 years, 140 patients (60.0 per cent) were between 30 40 years and 33 patients ...

OBJECTIVES To study whether all women attending a genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic warrant a cervical smear as part of a routine screen for infection, or whether this "at risk" population is adequately covered by the national screening programme. METHODS A cervical smear and a screen for sexually transmitted infections (STI) were taken from 900 women attending a GUM clinic between May 1996...

1. List biologic and physiologic reasons for the disproportionate adolescent sexually transmitted disease susceptibility. 2. Describe clinical and laboratory findings on examination of a female who has mucopurulent cervicitis. 3. Describe the causative pathogens and etiologic evaluation for vaginitis. 4. List the criteria for diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease. 5. Describe the documentati...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether an elevated vaginal leucocyte count in women with bacterial vaginosis (BV) predicts the presence of vaginal or cervical infections, and to assess the relation of vaginal WBC counts to clinical manifestations. METHODS We retrospectively analysed the relation of vaginal leucocyte counts to vaginal and cervical infections and to clinical manifestations in non-pregn...

Introduction: Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) continues to be one of the most frequently encountered problems in gynaecology. The present clinicopathological study was planned for early diagnosis and proper treatment of the organic pathology of the genital tract, with special emphasis on early diagnosis of malignancy. Material and Methods: The patients included in this study belong to Peri and ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether cervical mucosal shedding of HIV-1 RNA and HIV-1 infected cells decreases following successful treatment of cervicitis. DESIGN Prospective interventional study. SETTING Sexually Transmitted Infections Clinic, Coast Provincial General Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-six HIV-1 seropositive women with cervicitis: 16 with Neisseria gonorrhoeae, sev...

Introduction Infectious and inflammatory diseases of the lower genitalia in women of reproductive age continue to occupy one of the leading places in the overall structure of gynecological morbidity, their frequency varies between 65-80% and does not tend to decrease. Various surgical interventions, traumas, abortions, early sexual debut contribute to a change in the microbiocenosis of the vagi...

Human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) is sexually transmitted. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors for cervical shedding of HTLV-I DNA among Peruvian sex workers. HTLV tax DNA was detected in cervical specimens from 43 (68%) of 63 HTLV-I-infected sex workers and in samples obtained during 113 (52%) of 216 clinic visits between 1993 and 1997. Dete...

OBJECTIVE To determine predictors of Chlamydia trachomatis infection among women 14-24 years of age attending family planning clinics throughout a rural Midwestern state. METHODS The study population included 16,756 women between the ages of 14 and 24 years attending family planning clinics for annual examinations throughout the state of Iowa in 1997. All women under 25 years of age having an...