Inflammation/Infections Flashcards
What are the inlammation and infections that may be present in Female Genital Tract (3)
Cervicitis
Endometritis
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Characteristics and causative agents of acute cervicitis
Little clinical significance
Some degree of inflammation
Causative agents: Gonococcal Mycoplasma HSV Chlamydia
In acute endometritis what is its etiology (3)
Bacterial Infections
Postpartum
Abortion
Histology of acute endometritis
PMNs in endometrial stroma
Clinically significant etiologic agent of endometritis
Chlamydia
Histology of chronic cervicitis
With lymphocytes/ plasma cells in cervical stroma
Etiology of chronic endometritis (4)
Chronic PUD
IUD
Retained gestational tissue
TB
Histology of chronic endometritis
Plasma cells in endometrial stroma
Infection that begins in the vulva/vagina that ascends to involve the upper reproductive tract
PID
Most common causes of PID
Gonococcus and Chlamydia
Type of PID usually starting from endocervical mucosa, ascends through mucosal involvement
Gonococcal PID
PID that is associated with the history of uterine manipulation, spreads lymphahematogenously
Nongonococcal PUD
Clinical S/SX of PID (4)
Pelvic Pain
Adnexal Tenderness
Fever
Vaginal Discharge
General morphology of PID
Intense acute inflammatory infiltrates with Gram-negative diplococci
Cervical PID morphology
Acute and chronic cervicitis
