 Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
"Pelvic Inflammatory Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A spectrum of inflammation involving the female upper genital tract and the supporting tissues. It is usually caused by an ascending infection of organisms from the endocervix. Infection may be confined to the uterus (ENDOMETRITIS), the FALLOPIAN TUBES; (SALPINGITIS); the ovaries (OOPHORITIS), the supporting ligaments (PARAMETRITIS), or may involve several of the above uterine appendages. Such inflammation can lead to functional impairment and infertility.
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D000292
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.539.635.500 C13.351.500.056.750
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| Concept/Terms |
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
- Disease, Pelvic Inflammatory
- Diseases, Pelvic Inflammatory
- Inflammatory Diseases, Pelvic
- Pelvic Inflammatory Diseases
- Pelvic Disease, Inflammatory
- Inflammatory Disease, Pelvic
- Inflammatory Pelvic Disease
- Disease, Inflammatory Pelvic
- Diseases, Inflammatory Pelvic
- Inflammatory Pelvic Diseases
- Pelvic Diseases, Inflammatory
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pelvic Inflammatory Disease" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Pelvic Inflammatory Disease" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pelvic Inflammatory Disease" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Se?a AC, Lee JY, Schwebke J, Philip SS, Wiesenfeld HC, Rompalo AM, Cook RL, Hobbs MM. A Silent Epidemic: The Prevalence, Incidence and Persistence of Mycoplasma genitalium Among Young, Asymptomatic High-Risk Women in the United States. Clin Infect Dis. 2018 06 18; 67(1):73-79.
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Zheng X, O'Connell CM, Zhong W, Nagarajan UM, Tripathy M, Lee D, Russell AN, Wiesenfeld H, Hillier S, Darville T. Discovery of Blood Transcriptional Endotypes in Women with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. J Immunol. 2018 04 15; 200(8):2941-2956.
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