The use of bedside microscopy for examining urogenital smears in the optimization of diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections
| Autor: | Vorobyova, N., Savitcheva, A., Vagoras, A., Sokolovskiy, E., Hallen, A., Domeika, M. |
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| Jazyk: | ruština |
| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Zdroj: | Журнал акушерства и женских болезней. |
| ISSN: | 1683-9366 1684-0461 |
| Popis: | Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), especially in women, may result in infertility, lingering pelvic pain and pelvic adhesions, which may need surgical intervention. For these reasons, timely diagnosis of such infections is of paramount importance. The microscopy of genital smears performed by a physician during a patient visit (bedside microscopy) has been found to substantially reduce the time needed for a specific diagnosis, and in most cases, the physician can prescribe a proper treatment on the patient's first visit. In contrast, the traditional method of sending samples to a laboratory is time consuming for both the physician and the patient. Specificity of bedside microscopy in the hands of a skilled physician borders on 100%. If needed, a repeated sample can be taken immediately. With bedside microscopy, there is an opportunity to use limited laboratory resources more purposefully for further analyses. Moreover, physicians using bedside microscopy have greater authority with their patients. Within the Russian-Swedish project "Improvement of diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections" in the St. Petersburg and Leningrad regions, many dermatovenereologists and gynecologists were trained in bedside microscopy of urogenital smears. |
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