Pelvic inflammatory disease in the postmenopausal woman

✍ Scribed by S.L. Jackson; D.E. Soper

• Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 60 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1064-7449
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-0997(1999)7:5<248::aid-idog8>3.0.co;2-v

✦ Synopsis

Objective: Review available literature on pelvic inflammatory disease in postmenopausal women.

Design: MEDLINE literature review from 1966 to 1999.

Results: Pelvic inflammatory disease is uncommon in postmenopausal women. It is polymicrobial, often is concurrent with tuboovarian abscess formation, and is often associated with other diagnoses.

Conclusion: Postmenopausal women with pelvic inflammatory disease are best treated with inpatient parenteral antimicrobials and appropriate imaging studies. Failure to respond to antibiotics should yield a low threshold for surgery, and consideration of alternative diagnoses should be entertained.