Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is an acute or chronic inflammation in the pelvic cavity. It is most commonly caused by sexually transmitted diseases, including chlamydia and gonorrhea, that have ascended into the uterus, fallopian tubes, or ovaries as a result of intercourse or childbirth, or of surgical procedures, including insertion of IUDs or abortion. PID may be either symptomatic or asymptomatic. It may cause infertility and it may raise...
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Pelvic inflammatory disease
Medicine
Risk Factors:
- Menstruation
- Multiple sexual partners
- Unsafe sex
- Reproductive surgery
- Abortion
- IUD contraception
- Childbirth
- Younger age
- Female
- Personal history of pelvic inflammatory disease
Symptoms:
- Nausea
- Dyspareunia
- Pyrexia
- Fatigue
- Dysmenorrhea
- Vomiting
- Cramp
- Vaginal odor
- Irregular menstrual bleeding
- Asymptomatic