ABSTRACT
Since no antiviral treatment exists for human papilloma viruses (HPV), the clinician's role is to treat all detectable lesions in order to help the patient's immune system fight the virus and to prevent transmission by contact with lesions. HPV-associated lesions have been treated by a wide range of modalities, which may be divided into chemical, surgical and immunity-stimulating methods. We treated patients with large vulva lesions with Electrosurgery in combination with laser CO2 vaporization. HPV-associated lesions have been treated by a wide range of modalities, which may be divided into chemical, surgical and immunity-stimulating methods.
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Condylomata Acuminata/surgery , Electrosurgery , Laser Therapy , Vulvar Diseases/surgery , Combined Modality Therapy , Female , HumansABSTRACT
Post-cesarean-section endometritis therapy usually combines an intravenous administered antibiotic followed, once fever has remitted, by an oral or intramuscular course of 7-10 days of the same antibiotic. From November 1993 to May 1994 and trying to reduce the length of the treatment we conducted a randomized, comparative study between the conventional post-C-section endometritis treatment used at the Hospital Central Militar (long course) and a short parenteral treatment with the same antibiotics. Thirty one patients were randomized in the short course group and 32 in the long course group. Only in the long course group there was a patient with persistence of infection after ten days of antibiotic treatment (p > 0.05). The short course regimen brought additional advantages as reduction in treatment days as well as discomfort for the intramuscular administration of antibiotics. This observation suggests that a short course of antibiotics based on the patient's clinical response is a safe and less expensive alternative in the treatment of post-C-section endometritis.
