Morbidity following pelvic inflammatory disease

H Buchan, Buchan H, Heather Buchan, Vessey M, Martin Vessey, M Vessey, M Goldacre, Michael J Goldacre, Goldacre M, J Fairweather, Fairweather J, Jenny Fairweather
British journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 1993 · vol. 100(6) , pp. 558–562 · doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.1993.tb15308.x · PMID:8334091 · W2040892825
article OA: closed CC0 ⤵ 21 in-corpus citations
View on OpenAlex View on PubMed View at publisher
⚙ AI-generated summary by gemini-2.5-flash-lite, 2026-06-09 ⓘ

Women hospitalized for pelvic inflammatory disease showed significantly increased rates of subsequent hospital admissions for abdominal pain, gynecological pain, endometriosis, hysterectomy, and ectopic pregnancy compared to controls.

One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To examine patterns of morbidity following hospitalisation for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). DESIGN: Cohort study using Oxford Record Linkage Study data. SETTING: Oxfordshire and West Berkshire. SUBJECTS: One thousand three hundred fifty-five women discharged from hospital for the first time with a diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease during the interval 1970-1985, together with 10,507 control women discharged with various other diagnoses. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Hospital admission for abdominal pain, gynaecological pain, endometriosis, hysterectomy, and ectopic pregnancy. Data were not available in this analysis on pregnancies other than ectopic pregnancy. RESULTS: In comparison with the controls, women with a diagnosis of PID were ten times more likely to be admitted for abdominal pain, four times more likely to be admitted for gynaecological pain, six times more likely to be admitted for endometriosis, eight times more likely to be admitted for hysterectomy and ten times more likely to be admitted for ectopic pregnancy. CONCLUSIONS: Serious sequelae of PID are common, even in a study unable to examine the effects of the disease on fertility. The data on hysterectomy are particularly interesting; the operation in women with pelvic inflammatory disease is most often a consequence of the inflammatory process itself.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

Condition tags

endometriosis

MeSH descriptors

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Adolescent Adult Cohort Studies Endometriosis Endometriosis England England Female Hospitalization Humans Hysterectomy Morbidity Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Pregnancy Pregnancy, Ectopic Pregnancy, Ectopic

Citation neighborhood

Papers in the corpus that this work cites (lower rings, blue) and that cite this one (upper rings, green). Dot size scales with the paper's in-corpus citation count — bigger dot = more influential within the endo/adeno field. Click a dot to open that paper. [ expand to 2 hops ] — adds papers reached through this work's immediate citers/citees. Heavier; up to 60 extra dots.

References (16)

Cited by (18)

Source provenance

europepmc
last seen: 2026-09-07T06:12:11.729357+00:00
openalex
last seen: 2026-06-10T17:14:06.276822+00:00
pubmed
last seen: 2026-05-13T22:11:39.448046+00:00
License: CC0 · commercial use OK