Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, A Perturbing Trigger to Infertility: A Systematic Review

Gul Nasreen, Syyeda Khadija, Saadia Fatima
In: Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing · 2020 · doi:10.7176/jhmn/82-08 · W3110467791
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This systematic review evaluated the correlation between pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility, finding PID to be the second most common cause of infertility with limited diagnostic utility for ultrasonography.

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This systematic review evaluated the association between pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and infertility and assessed the role of imaging modalities in PID diagnosis. The authors searched Google Scholar, PubMed, and Medscape for articles published from 2010 to 2020 and synthesized evidence based on reported clinical, laboratory, and imaging approaches used to diagnose PID. The review concludes that PID is the second most common cause of infertility and that diagnostic ultrasonography plays a limited role in diagnosing PID. The paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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Introduction: Pelvic inflammatory disease is the term used comprehensively for cervicitis, endometritis, salpingitis, pelvic peritonitis, and tubo-ovarian abscess. Diagnosis is initially by clinical assessment, confirmed by laboratory investigations and imaging modalities. PID is usually ignored by patients and clinicians eventually leading to infertility . Purpose: The goal of this systematic review is to evaluate co relation of PID with infertility and role of imaging modalities for diagnosis. Method: During October 2020 we searched Google scholar, pub med, Medscape research articles from 2010 -2020. Conclusion: Pelvic inflammatory disease is second most common cause of infertility while diagnostic ultrasonography plays a limited role to diagnose. Keywords: Pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, endometritis, hydro salpinx, Tubal factor infertility and Sonographic evaluation. DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/82-08 Publication date: November 30 th 2020
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Introduction: Pelvic inflammatory disease is the term used comprehensively for cervicitis, endometritis, salpingitis, pelvic peritonitis, and tubo-ovarian abscess. Diagnosis is initially by clinical assessment, confirmed by laboratory investigations and imaging modalities. PID is usually ignored by patients and clinicians eventually leading to infertility. Purpose: The goal of this systematic review is to evaluate co relation of PID with infertility and role of imaging modalities for diagnosis. Method: During October 2020 we searched Google scholar, pub med, Medscape research articles from 2010 -2020. Conclusion: Pelvic inflammatory disease is second most common cause of infertility while diagnostic ultrasonography plays a limited role to diagnose.

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Pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, endometritis, hydro salpinx, Tubal factor infertility and Sonographic evaluation. DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/82-08 Publication date: November 30th 2020 To list your conference here. Please contact the administrator of this platform. Paper submission email: [email protected] ISSN 2422-8419 Please add our address "[email protected]" into your email contact list. This journal follows ISO 9001 management standard and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Copyright © www.iiste.org

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