Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: How frequent it is Among the Women Presenting with Low Back Pain
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2018-07
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Society for Health Care & Research Development
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Background: Low back pain (LBP) is an emerging public health problem and treating this condition is also challenging due to it’s vast differential diagnosis. Pelvic inflammaotory disease (PID) is one of the most frequently encountered condition among the females with some serious consequences if not treated. Aim & Objective: The present study is conducted to detect the incidence of PID among the females presenting with LBP. Methods: A prospective epidemiological study conducted from April 2017 to March 2018 at Burdwan Medical College & Hospital.All female patients attending Orthopaedic OPD with chief complaints of LBP were initially evaluated,out of them 300 patients without underlying skeletal/ neurological pathology were further evaluated at Gynaecology OPD to detect PID. Results: In this study out of 300 females presenting with low back pain 234 (78%) patients had PID.Among the patients presenting with low back pain- majority( 35.0% )were in the age group of 40-50 years ; 62.0% belonged to low socioeconomic status ; 54.33% were Illiterate ; 25.33% of them were Obese & 43.0% Pre-obese ; 34.67% had used Oral contraceptives & 55.67% used Intrauterinedevice ;51.33% patients had Inflammatory PAP smear report. Majority of the patients who had vaginal discharge along with low back pain belonged to the age group of 40-50. Conclusion:PID is a significant risk factor for LBP, specially among the women of reproductive age group.
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Ghosh Soham, Dessa Dorothy. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: How frequent it is Among the Women Presenting with Low Back Pain. Annals of International medical and Dental Research. 2018 Jul; 4(4): 1-4