pelvic inflammatory disease/吐き気

OBJECTIVE Both irritable bowel syndrome and some gynaecological diseases can give rise to lower abdominal pain, which may result in diagnostic confusion. Disorders such as endometriosis and chronic pelvic inflammatory disease can be diagnosed definitively only by laparoscopy, which is seldom

Diagnosis of the cause of lower abdominal pain in women may be difficult because appendicitis and pelvic inflammatory disease often present similarly. In a prospective study of 118 women, we found that several criteria are useful in establishing this differential. These include (1) duration of

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is mainly caused by ascending infection from the vaginal flora including the sexually transmitted organisms, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis, and lower genital tract endogenous anaerobes, leading to serious consequences including infertility and

A thirty-three year old female presented to our emergency department complaining of severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. On physical examination she was hypotensive with a firm, tender abdomen, cervical motion tenderness and a diffuse erythematous rash. A surgical diagnosis of Acute Pelvic

OBJECTIVE We aimed to develop a clinical prediction rule to distinguish pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) from acute appendicitis in women of childbearing age. METHODS We reviewed medical records over a 4-year period of female patients of childbearing age who had presented with abdominal pain at an

Although metronidazole (MNZ) has been used worldwide for more than 4 decades as a standard therapy for trichomoniasis, anaerobic and amebic infections, resistance to MNZ is still low. MNZ is available as oral, intravenous, and vaginal formulations, but the intravenous formulation of MNZ has not been

A multicenter randomized comparative trial was done to assess the safety and efficacy of oral ofloxacin (400 mg twice daily for 10 days) versus cefoxitin (2 g intramuscularly) followed by doxycycline (100 mg twice daily orally for 10 days) for the outpatient treatment of uncomplicated pelvic

We conducted a multicenter trial to compare the efficacy and safety of meropenem with the efficacy and safety of clindamycin plus gentamicin in the treatment of 515 hospitalized patients with acute gynecologic and obstetric pelvic infections. At the end of treatment, the rates of satisfactory

OBJECTIVE A Canadian multicentre clinical trial in the treatment of intra-abdominal and pelvic infections to compare the efficacy and safety of monotherapy using imipenem-cilastatin (imipenem) (500 mg intravenously every 6 h) versus combination therapy with clindamycin/tobramycin (clindamycin 600 mg

Eleven cases of pneumococcal infection of abdominal and pelvic origin that occurred in previously healthy adults are described. All cases occurred in women who were admitted to a county hospital in Norway with acute abdominal symptoms such as pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Explorative

A 44-year-old Caucasian female with a history of endometriosis is admitted to the intensive care unit due to severe left lower quadrant abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. With patients' positive chandelier sign on pelvic examination, leucocytosis, elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate and

OBJECTIVE Uncomplicated pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a common disease caused by numerous pathogens: sexually transmitted infections (such as Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Mycoplasma genitalium), anaerobes, and other organisms from the vaginal flora. It is currently treated

OBJECTIVE We determined the incidence of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome (FHCS) in adolescents who had mild to moderately severe pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). METHODS Prospective cohort study. METHODS Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, April 2000-April 2006. METHODS Incarcerated female

In women, Chlamydia trachomatis infection often occurs in the urethra or cervix, with up to 70% of infections associated with few or no symptoms. Inadequate treatment may lead to infection of the upper genital tract and subsequent pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in 10 to 40% of patients. PID

Intermittent incomplete intestinal obstruction was proven by sonography in 25 male and 48 female patients with an age range of 10 to 88 years. All of them suffered from intermittent colicky pain, nausea and meteorism followed by liquid stools. Only 52 patients had undergone a total of 69 abdominal