ABSTRACT
Esta revisión define parto prematuro e infección intrauterina (origen, vías y estadios). Resumimos las asociaciones epidemiológicas entre parto prematuro y los diferentes microorganismos. Se discute la interacción entre productos bacterianos y el sistema monocitomacrófago del huésped, los atributos de las citoquinas proinflamatorias y el papel desempeñado en el mecanismo del parto y el síndrome de respuesta inmune fetal
Subject(s)
Humans , Female , Pregnancy , Infant, Newborn , Obstetric Labor, Premature/etiology , Uterine Diseases/microbiology , Vaginosis, Bacterial/complications , Chlamydia trachomatis/isolation & purification , Chlamydia trachomatis/pathogenicity , Cytokines , Mycoplasma hominis/isolation & purification , Mycoplasma hominis/pathogenicity , Neisseria gonorrhoeae/isolation & purification , Neisseria gonorrhoeae/pathogenicity , Oropharynx/microbiology , Streptococcus agalactiae/isolation & purification , Streptococcus agalactiae/pathogenicity , Trichomonas vaginalis/isolation & purification , Trichomonas vaginalis/pathogenicity , Ureaplasma urealyticum/isolation & purification , Ureaplasma urealyticum/pathogenicityABSTRACT
A 25 yr old married woman with complaints of lower abdominal pain for 2 months, was found to have a irregular nontender mass in pelvis, adherent to uterus. Her Papanicolaou smear was inflammatory. To confirm the diagnosis of either ovarian malignancy or pelvic tuberculosis made on the basis of observations during exploratory laparotomy, ovarian biopsy was taken. The imprint cytodiagnosis was tuberculosis. The patient was then managed surgically and the previous diagnosis was reconfirmed by histopathology. Imprint cytodiagnosis appears to be a valuable technique whenever facilities for frozen section are not available.