[Sexually transmitted diseases and female sterility at the University Hospital Center of Dakar: management and prevention]

Contracept Fertil Sex. 1997 Jan;25(1):58-63.
[Article in French]

Abstract

It is a retrospective study supporting 82 cases continued series of feminine sterility and which objective is to evaluate the nursing management quality of genital infection in exploration and treatment of sterility. Women mean age is 26 years old, sterility is most primary frequently (68%) and from fallopian origin (80%). Followers examinations have been asked: vaginal taking (100%), urines cytobacteriology examination (56%), syphilis serology (23%), chlamydia serology (57%), mycoplasma serology (03%). Genital infection have been diagnosed in 75% of cases, in 33% of cases positive Chlamydia serology was found. Three molecules have been used principally in treatment: cyclines 50%, imidazoles derived 47%, lactamines 15%. The upper cost of diagnostic and treatments produce a wishest of prevention which based is the tracking and the precocious treatment of STD.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Health Care Costs
  • Hospitals, University
  • Humans
  • Infertility, Female / diagnosis
  • Infertility, Female / economics
  • Infertility, Female / microbiology*
  • Infertility, Female / therapy*
  • Primary Prevention
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Risk Factors
  • Senegal
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases / complications*