Genital TB: An unusual threat to reproductive health in the tropics
| Autor: | Babatunde J. Olasode, J O Okunola, Olayinka A. Olasode, Sule Ss |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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| Zdroj: | Tropical Doctor. 37:116-116 |
| ISSN: | 1758-1133 0049-4755 |
| Popis: | Reproductive health is a state of physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity in matters related to the reproductive system and its functions. We report a case of tuberculous salpingitis in a 35-year-old woman who reported to a sexually transmitted disease clinic with history suggestive of a pelvic inflammatory disease. Providing effective reproductive health-care delivery in resource limited settings requires clinical expertise and a high index of suspicion in the absence of sophisticated investigative facilities. A 35-year-old woman from a polygamous home setting the first of two wives of her husband presented to our sexually transmitted disease clinic with a history of irregularity of her menstrual cycle dull lower abdominal pain and inability to get pregnant. She had been pregnant three times but had only one surviving child who was 14 years of age. Her last confinement was 8 years prior to presentation. Her other two children died in infancy ofunrelated causes. She had her previous deliveries one at a village post by a community health extension worker and the other two at a church mission maternity centre. She had had two previous blood transfusions one for anaemia in pregnancy and the other for postpartum haemorrhage. She complained of weight loss and poor appetite. There was no history of sexually transmitted diseases in the past. (excerpt) |
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