S.T.D.'s can cause infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and other painful symptoms.
I examined her and found signs of pelvic inflammatory disease, which is most often caused by sexually transmitted diseases.
The chlamydia microbe can cause pelvic inflammatory disease and resulting abdominal pain, ectopic pregnancy and infertility in women.
Among the women, the most common complaints were pelvic inflammatory diseases and genital and urinary-tract infections.
The findings led to chlamydia control programs in the United States and Europe that markedly reduced the incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease.
Scott says that he suspects around 5% of women with chlamydia develop pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), where the infection moves up to the womb.
The pill lowers the risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, a common problem for teenagers, by improving the cervical mucus barrier against bacteria.
Without treatment, the infection can lead to serious long-term health problems, including infertility, or potentially life-threatening pelvic inflammatory disease in women.
Among his accomplishments, Dr. Stamm clarified the role of a bacterium, chlamydia trachomatis, in causing pelvic inflammatory disease that often leads to infertility among women.
As a result, women on the pill have a reduced risk of developing pelvic inflammatory disease, which can damage the tubes and cause infertility.
Chlamydia is a leading cause of infertility and pelvic inflammatory disease, as well as of ectopic pregnancies, which occur disproportionately among black women.
