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What is the definition of sexually transmitted infection?

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The main mode of transmission of the organism is through sexual contact

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What is the definition of sexually transmitted disease?

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A disease caused by a sexually transmitted infection e.g. pelvic inflammatory disease

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What is a sexually transmissible infection?

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Disease can be transmitted by sexual contact, but it is not its main mode of transmission

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What are different forms of sexual contact?

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What are infective causes of vaginal discharge?

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  • Candida albicans
  • Trichomonas vaginalis
  • BActerial vaginosis
  • Neisseria gonorrhoae
  • Chlamydia trachomatis
  • HSV
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What are non-infective causes of vaginal discharge?

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  • Cervical polyps
  • Neoplasms
  • Retained products - tampons
  • Chemical irritation
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What are infectious causes of urethral discharge?

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  • Nesseiria gonorrhoae
  • Chlamydia trachomatis
  • Mycoplasma genetalium
  • Ureaplasma urealyticum
  • Trichomonas vaginalis
  • HSV
  • HPV
  • UTI
  • Reponema Pallidum - meatal chancre
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What are non-infective causes of urethral discharge?

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  • Physical/chemical trauma
  • Urethral stricture
  • Nonspecific
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What are infective causes of genital ulceration?

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  • Sypillis - primary chancre, secondary mucous patches, tertiary gumma
  • Chanroid
  • Lymphogranuloma venereum
  • Donovanosis
  • HSV - Primary, recurrent
  • HZV
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What are non-infective causes of genital ulceration?

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  • Behcet’s syndrome
  • Toxic epidermal necrolysis
  • SJS
  • CArcinoma
  • Trauma
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What are the main symptoms that can occur in STIs?

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  • Dyspareunia
  • Vaginal/urethral discharge
  • Ulceration
  • Pain
  • Itch
  • Malodour
  • Genital swelling
  • Eye symptoms
  • Dysuria
  • Haematuria
  • Abdominal pain
  • Systemic symptoms - Skin rash, joint pain, malaise, lymphadenopathy,fever
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What things would you want to ask about in a full sexual history?

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  • PC/HPC
  • Past sexual history
  • Menstrual history
  • Gynae history
  • Obstetric history
  • PMH
  • Medications + Allergies
  • Social history
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What would you want to ask about in a menstrual history?

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MR FLOPPI DIC

  • Menopause
  • Regularity
  • Flow
  • Odd bleeding - Post-coital, Post-menopausal, Intermenstrual
  • Dysmenorrhoea
  • Initiation - menarche
  • Cycle - days on/days off
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What would you want to ask about in the gynae history section of a sexual history?

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  • Previous gynaecological disease +/- treatment
  • Last smear - date and result
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What would you want to ask about in past sexual history?

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  • Last sexual contact?
  • Casual/regular partner - how long for?
  • Consensual?
  • Male or female?
  • Types of sex involved - anal, vaginal, oral, multiple partners
  • Contraception used - condoms and/or other
  • Nationality of contact
  • Any other partners
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What would you want to ask about in the obstetric section of the history when taking a full sexual history?

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  • Contraception being used?
  • Current pregnancy/unsure?
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What specific questions could you ask about HIV to identify positive risk factors for infection?

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  • Have you ever had a partner whom is known to be HIV positive?
  • Have you ever had sex with a bisexual man/engaged in male homosexual activity?
  • Have you ever had sex with someone abroad, or who was born in a different country?
  • Have you ever injected drugs?
  • Are you aware of any of your previous partners having ever injected drugs?
  • Have you ever paid someone for sex, or been paid for sex?
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What is the following?

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Balanitis - specifically candida balanitis

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What is the following?

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Genital ulcer - think of infectinve and non-infective causes

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What is the following?

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Genital warts - specifically HPV warts

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What is the causative organism of gonorrhoea?

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Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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What is the general incubation period of neisseria gonorrhoea?

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Usually 5-6 days - can be 2 days - 2 weeks

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What sex does gonorrhoea occur in most commonly?

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Men - often in MSM

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What are symtpoms of gonorrhoea in men?

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10% asymptomatic

  • Thick profuse yellow discharge
  • Dysuria
  • Pharyngeal/rectal infection
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What are symptoms of gonorrhoea in women?

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>50% asymptomatic:

  • Vaginal discharge
  • Dysuria
  • Intermenstrual/post-coital bleeding
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What investigations would you consider doing if you suspected gonorrhoea?

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NAAT testing on samples obtained as follows:

  • Women - a vulvovaginal swab (which may be self-taken)
  • Men - first pass urine

Sites sampled for swabs should be mucosal sites associated with symptoms, and sites related to the type of sexual activity reported.

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What is NAAT?

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Nucleic acid amplification test

A technique utilized to detect a particular nucleic acid, virus, or bacteria which acts as a pathogen in blood, tissue, urine. Amplification is done using PCR or ligase chain reaction

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What might you see on urinalysis in someone with gonorrhoea?

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Positive leukocyte esterase

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What gram-type is gonorrhoea?

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Intracellular gram-negative diplococci

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Why might you do imaging in someone with gonorrhoea?

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Look for features of PID - inflammatory changes of fallopian tubes and ovaries, abnormal fluid collection

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How would you treat confirmed gonorrhoea?

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  • Ceftriaxone 500mg IM once plus Azithromycin 1g Oral
  • Add doxycycline +/- metranidazole if complicated
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When is metranidazole added to treatment of gonorrhoea?

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If there is a history of sexual assault/abuse

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What complications can occur in men with gonorrhoea?

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  • Epididymitis
  • Acute mononeuritis
  • Disseminated gonococcal infection
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What complications can occur in women with gonorrohoea?

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  • PID
  • Bartholin’s Abscess
  • Acute Mononeuritis
  • Disseminated gonoccocal disease
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What is disseminated gonococcal disease?

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Bacteremic spread of the sexually transmitted pathogen, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which can lead to a variety of clinical symptoms and signs, such as arthritis or arthralgias, tenosynovitis, and multiple skin lesions

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How should you follow-up someone with gonococcal infection?

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Test of cure at 2 weeks and test of reinfection at 3 months

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What organism causes chlamydia infection?

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Chlamydia trachomatis serovars D to K

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How does chlamydia present in women?

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Asymptomatic - 80%

  • Vaginal discharge
  • Dysuria
  • Intermenstrual/post-coital bleeding
  • Dyspareunia
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What proportion of women are asymptomatic with chlamydia infection?

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80%

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How can chlamydia present in men?

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Asymptomatic > 70%

  • Slight watery discharge
  • Dysuria
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What is the consistency of urethral discharge produced in chlamydial infection?

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Watery discharge

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What is the consistency of urethral discharge produced in gonococcal infection?

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Thick yellow discharge

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How would you test for chlamydia infection?

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NAAT for diagnosis of smaples collected as follows:

  • Women
    • Swabs - urethra, vagina, cervix, rectum
    • First void urine
  • Men
    • First void urine
    • Urethral swab
  • Both
    • ​Rectal swabs if symptomatic
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How would you manage someone with chlamydia?

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Azithromycin 1g PO

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What are complications of chlamydia in women?

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  • Pelvic inflammatory disease
  • Reactive arthritis
  • Infertility
  • Ectopic pregnancy
  • Cervical cancer
  • Perihepatitis (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome)
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What are complications of chlamydia in men?

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  • Epididymitis
  • Reactive arthritis
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What complications can occur in neonates with chlamydia?

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  • Chlamydia pneumonia
  • Opthalmia neonatorum - conjunctivis
48
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What are features of reiter’s syndrome

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Can’t see, can’t pee, pain in the knee

  • Urethritis/cervicitis
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Arthritis
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What age group does chlamydia usually affect?

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<25 years + sexually active

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What is the average incubation period of chlamydia trachomatis?

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What gram-type is chalmydia trachomatis?

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Gram-negative

52
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What herpes viruses cause genital herpes?

53
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How does HSV infection present?

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80% - no symptoms

  • Monthly/annual buring/itching then blistering rash then tender ulceration
    • Genital
    • Oral
  • Tender inguinal nodes
  • Flu-like symptoms
  • Urethral discharge
  • Proctitis
  • Dysuria
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Why is HIV ragarded as a risk factor for clinical presentation of HSV disease?

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Increases risk of reactivation and infection

55
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What is the pathogenesis of herpes infection?

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Virus initially breaks mucosal barrier/skin. It then replicates in the epidermis, and infects sensory/autonomic nerve endings and travels by retrograde axonal transport to sensory ganglia. It then enters a latent state, which allows the virus to evade the immune system

Reactivation of the virus occurs when it travels by anterograde transport to mucosal/cutaneous surface

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What clinical presentation of herpes does HSV 1 cause?

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Mainly oral herpes

57
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What clinical presentation of herpes does HSV2 cause?

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Mainly genital herpes

58
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How would you diagnose herpes?

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Clinical impression

Swab - viral culture, HSV PCR, IgG assay

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How would you manage someone with HSV infection?

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  • Pain relief - Topical lidocaine, paracetamol/ibuprofen
  • Antivirals - Aciclovir/Valaciclovir/Famciclovir
  • Counselling - recurrence, implications for sexual partners (avoid sex if symptomatic)
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What are complications of HSV infection?

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  • Autonomic neuropathy
  • Neonatal HSV
  • Secondary infection
  • Encephalitis/Meningitis
  • Keratitis/Keratoconjunctivitis
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What is the causative organism of trichomoniasis?

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Trichomonas Vaginalis

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What are the symptoms of trichomoniasis in men?

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Asymptomatic

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What are symptoms of trichomoniasis in women?

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30% asymptomatic:

  • Profuse thin vaginal discharge - greenish, foul-smelling, frothy
  • Vulvitis - itching
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What investigations would you do if you suspected tichomoniasis?

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High vaginal swab

  • Microscopy of wet preparation
  • NAAT testing
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How would you manage someone with trichomoniasis?

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  • Metronidazole
    • 400mg po bd for 5 days, or
    • 2g single dose.
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What are complications of trichomoniasis?

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  • Miscarriage
  • Pre-term labour
67
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What is the main organism implicated in anogenital warts?

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Human papilloma virus - 6 and 11

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How does HPV present?

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Anogenital warts - occassionally itchy or painful

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How would you manage anogenital warts?

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  • Topical podophyllotoxin
  • Cryotherapy
  • Imiquimod
  • Diathermy/Ablation
  • Scissor removal
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What organism causes syphillis?

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Treponema pallidum

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What is the incubation period of treponema pallidum?

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9-90 days until first chancre

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What are features of primary syphillis?

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Chancre

Begins as macule -> papule -> painless ulcer (chancre) with central slough and defined rolled edges

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What are features of secondary syphillis?

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Dissemination 4-10 weeks after initial chancre:

  • Maculopapular rash - can be on palms and soles
  • Mucous patches
  • Condyloma lata
  • Fever
  • Headache
  • Myalgia
  • Lymphadenoapthy
  • Hepatitis
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What could cause the following?

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Secondary syphillis - maculopapular rash

75
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What could cause the following?

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Secondary syphillis - mucous patches

76
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What could cause the following painless ulcer?

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Primary syphillis - chancre

77
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What could cause the following?

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Secondary syphillis - condyloma lata - pale, raised plaques

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What are features of tertiary syphillis?

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Occurs 20-40 years after initial infection

  • Aseptic meningitis
  • Neurosyphillis - Seizures, Psychiatric symptoms, Focal neurological deficit
  • Tabes dorsalis
  • Gummatous syphillis
  • Cardiovascular syphillis
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What is tabes doralis?

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Also known as syphilitic myelopathy, is a slow degeneration (specifically, demyelination) of the neural tracts primarily in the dorsal columns (posterior columns) of the spinal cord (the portion closest to the back of the body) & dorsal roots.

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What are argyle robertson pupils?

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Characterised by:

  • Miosis (small pupils)
  • Absence of the pupillary light response
  • Brisk accommodation reaction
  • Bilateral involvement.
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What is the mechanism behind Argyll-Robertson pupils?

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Caused by a pretectal lesion in the dorsal midbrain affecting the fibres of light reflex, which spare the fibres of the accommodation pathway that innervate the Edinger–Westphal nuclei

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What are features of tabes dorsalis?

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  • Dorsal column degeneration
  • Orthapaedic pain - Charcots joint
  • Reflexes - Areflexia and extensor plantars
  • Shooting pain
  • Argyll-robertson pupil
  • Locomotor ataxia
  • Impaired proprioception
  • Syphillis
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What are features of gummatous syphillis?

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Destructive granulomata in skin, mucous membranes, bones, viscera

84
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What stage of syphillis is gummatous syphillis?

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Tertiary syphillis

85
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What are features of cardiovascular syphillis?

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  • Aortitis
  • Aortic regurgitation +/- aneurysm
86
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What could cause the following?

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Tertiary syphillis - gummatous syphillis

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What are features of early congenital syphillis?

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Presentation before 2 years

  • Prematurity + IUGR
  • Hepatosplenomegaly
  • Nasal chondritis
  • Skin rash
  • Osteochondritis
  • Neuro symptoms - cranial nerve palsies, hydrocephalus
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What are features of late congenital syphillis?

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Presentation after 2 years

  • Craniofacial abnormalities
  • Hutchison’s triad - hutchisons teeth, intersitial keratitis, CNVIII deafness
  • Neurosyphillis
  • Saber shins
  • Frontal bossing
  • Paroxysmal cold haemoglobinuria
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How would you investigate if you suspected syphillitic infection?

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  • Bloods - TP IgG/IgM, TPPA, RPR
  • Imaging - CXR, ECHO, CT/MRI
  • Other - swab + dark-field microscopy
90
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What type of organism is trepnema pallidum?

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Coiled Spirochaete

91
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What is TPPA?

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Serum T pallidum particle agglutinin

92
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What is RPR testing for syphillis testing?

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Serum rapid plasma reagin test

Correlates with disease activity, and can also be used as a marker of treatment efficacy

93
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Why might you consider doing a CXR in someone with syphillis?

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Cardiac abnormality

94
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Why might you do an ECHO in someone with syphillis?

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Looking for cardiac abnormalityif suspected

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How would you manage someone with early syphillis (<2 years)?

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  • Benzathine penicillin IM 2.4 MU
  • Consider Doxycycline 100mg Bd if allergic
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How would you manage late syphillis (>2 years)?

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  • Benzathine penicillin 2.4MU im weekly for 3 doses
  • Consider Doxycycline 100mg bd po 28 days if allergic
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What is lymphogranuloma venerum?

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A STD caused by the invasive serovars L1, L2, L2a or L3 of Chlamydia trachomatis

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What are features of lymphogranuloma venerum?

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Painless papule/ulcer, which can be followed by:

  • Lymphadenopathy
  • Fever
  • Arthritis
  • Pneumonitis

Can also have haemorrhagic prostatitis

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What is chancroid?

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A bacterial STD caused by infection with Haemophilus ducreyi. It is characterized by painful necrotizing genital ulcers that may be accompanied by inguinal lymphadenopathy

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What would you want to look for on examination of someone with an STI in a male?

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  • Retract foreskin
  • Inpect urethral meatus
  • Scrotal contents/tenderness/swelling
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What might you look for on exmaination in a woman with a suspected STI?

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  • Vulval examination
  • Speculum examination
  • Bimanual examination for adnexal tenderness
  • Palpate abdomen for masses
  • Consider PR exam - if anal symptoms
  • Inguinal lymph nodes
  • Oral mucosa
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What is pelvic inflammatory disease?

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Results when infection ascend from the cervix or vagina into the upper genital tract. It includes endometritis, salpingitis, tubo-ovarian abscess and pelvic peritonitis

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What are the most common causes of pelvic inflammatory disease?

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  • Chlamydia
  • Gonorrhoea
  • Uterine instrumentation
  • Post-partum infection
104
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What are symptoms of PID?

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  • Lower abdominal pain - usually bilateral
  • Increased vaginal discharge
  • Irregular bleeding
  • Postcoital bleeding
  • Deep dyspareunia
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What are signs of PID?

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  • Mucopurulent discharge from cervix with contact bleeding - cervicitis
  • Adnexal tenderness
  • Cervical motion tenderness
  • Pyrexia
  • Palpable adnexal mass
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How would you diagnose PID?

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Clinical diagnosis mostly, but laparoscopy is the gold standard (only indicated if diagnosis is uncertain)

  • Bloods - FBC + CRP + Blood cultures (if unwell)
  • Other - swabs
107
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What precautions may a woman who is pregnant with HSV have to take to protect her unborn child form HSV infection?

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  • Delivery by C-section - if PRIMARY HSV infection contracted after 34 weeks (Risk of infecting baby is very high if delivered vaginally)
  • If primary infection > 2 months prior to delivery - vaginal delivery likely to be safe to baby as antibodies will have been passed on.
  • If patient has developed HSV in the first trimester - small risk of miscarriage
  • Aciclovir - generally is not advocated before 20 weeks.
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What are complications fo PID?

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  • Tubo-ovarian abscess
  • Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome - liver capsule inflammation with perihepatic adhesions
  • Recurrent PID
  • Ectopic pregnancy
  • Subfertility
  • Bilateral hydronephrosis
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How would you manage PID?

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  • Admit if severe
  • Antibiotics - ceftriaxone/azithromycin + doxycycline + metranidazole
  • Drain abscess
  • Consider anti-emetics - if vomiting
110
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What are some of the features of chronic PID?

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  • Pelvic pain
  • Menorrhagia
  • Secondary dysmenorrhoea
  • Discharge
  • Deep dyspareunia
111
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Why can bilateral hydronephrosis occur as a complication of PID?

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Due to local inflammation of the ureters - causes them to stenose and back up

112
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What STI’s are associated with Ftz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome?

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  • C. Trochamatis
  • Can be in gonorrhoea
113
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What is the following?

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Ftiz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome

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