Doença inflamatória pélvica aguda

Abstract

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) is an inflammatory condition of the female upper genital tract – above the internal os of the cervix – of infectious etiology, which may include combinations of endometritis, salpingitis, tubo-ovarian abscess and pelvic peritonitis. It is important to know, however, that infectious and inflammatory processes resulting from previous surgical manipulations or the pregnancy-puerperal cycle are not included in the definition of PID (BRUNHAM et al., 2015). Clinical manifestations are diverse, nonspecific and can be subtle. Part of its relevance lies in the long-term reproductive complications of the disease, such as infertility, ectopic pregnancy and chronic pelvic pain (WORKOWSKI et al., 2021).