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Pelvic inflammatory disease - Management
Who is at risk of developing pelvic inflammatory disease?
- Risk factors for developing pelvic inflammatory disease include:
- Factors related to sexual behaviour:
- Young age (less than 25 years).
- Early age of first coitus.
- Multiple sexual partners.
- Recent new partner (within the previous 3 months).
- History of sexually transmitted infection in the woman or her partner.
- Recent instrumentation of the uterus or interruption of the cervical barrier:
- Termination of pregnancy.
- Insertion of an intrauterine device (within the past 6 weeks).
- Hysterosalpingography.
- In vitro fertilization and intrauterine insemination.
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