L Weström

OBJECTIVES: 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 …

Genital infections, in both men and women, may cause permanent functional damage to the reproductive tract resulting in infertility. In men, post-infection infertility is uncommon, whereas in women sequelae after pelvic inflammatory disease…

From 1960 10 1984, 2,501 women underwent diagnostic laparoscopy (index laparoscopy) because of a clinical suspicion of acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Of these women, 1,844 had abnormal laparoscopic findings (patients) and 657 had …

Many women who suffer from tubal factor infertility (TFI) had earlier had asymptomatic pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Chlamydia trachomatis is often isolated from their fallopian tubes and endometrial cavity. A study in Canada provides …

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is defined as the clinical syndrome attributed to the ascending spread of microorganisms unrelated to pregnancy and surgery from the vagina and cervix to the endometrium fallopian tube and/or contiguous str…

A total of 415 women treated for laparoscopically verified pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) were reviewed after 9.5 years. Of these, 88 (21.2 per cent) were involuntarily childless after one or more infection; in 72 cases (17.3 per cent) t…

A total of 415 women treated for laparoscopically verified pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) were reviewed after 9.5 years. Of these, 88 (21.2 per cent) were involuntarily childless after one or more infection; in 72 cases (17.3 per cent) t…