Can pregnant patients have pelvic inflammatory disease?
- Report By: J Adam Oostema, MD - EM resident
- Search checked by Jeffrey Jones, MD - Research Director, EM Residency Program
- Institution: Grand Rapids Medical Education & Research/Michigan State University
- Date Submitted: 24th June 2009
- Last Modified: 25th June 2009
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Blue (submitted but not checked)
Three Part Question
Can [patients who are pregnant] [develop or have concomitantly] [pelvic inflammatory disease]?Clinical Scenario
An 18 year old female presents to the emergency department with lower abdominal pain, vaginal discharge. She is currently 8 weeks pregnant by dates and ultrasound confirms a viable intrauterine gestation. You wonder if this patient could have pelvic inflammatory disease even though she is pregnant.Search Strategy
Medline 1950-06/09 using OVID interface, Cochrane Library (2009), PubMed clinical queries[("Pelvic Inflammatory Disease"/Diagnosis) AND (exp pregnancy)] Limit to human and English
Search Outcome
125 papers were found of which only one study was relevant to the three part questionRelevant Paper(s)
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