Pelvic inflammatory disease article
December 31st, 2011 | lu
Definitive care can then be provided from starting IV antibiotics to removing an ectopic pregnancy. A health care practitioner will start antibiotic therapy for pelvic inflammatory disease as soon as the diagnosis is made. Gonorrhea and chlamydia are suspected and treated in every person. Pain medication and IV fluids will be given if the patient needs them.
It has also been suggested that genetic polymorphisms of PID pathogens affect the likelihood that a lower tract infection will progress to frank PID. Chlamydial heat shock protein 60 (CHSP60) antigen expression in C trachomatis and P9Opa(b) protein expression in N gonorrhoeae are examples of specific bacterial genes implicated in the pathology of PID.