Thomas A. Bell

TL;DR: Endometrial biopsy specimens from 69 consecutive patients with clinically suspected acute pelvic inflammatory disease who underwent microbiological evaluation for UGTI and laparoscopically confirmed acute salpingitis were studied to define and quantitate histologic changes in the endometrium that best correlate with documented upper genital tract infection (UGTI).

TL;DR: Thirty-six women with suspected pelvic inflammatory disease were examined by laparoscopy and endometrial biopsy and therapy with clindamycin plus tobramycin produced an adequate short-term clinical response in 16 of 19 patients, although patients with severe salpingitis at laparoscope responded slowly.

TL;DR: The challenge for the future is to improve control of chlamydial and gonococcal infections to prevent late sequellae such as infertility and ectopic pregnancy and to develop a better understanding of the mechanisms by which STD agents interact with each other and their host to cause cancer.

TL;DR: Many infants infected with C trachomatis at birth remain infected for months or years in the absence of specific antimicrobial therapy, such infections may be confused with those acquired by sexual abuse.

TL;DR: Rates of infectious syphilis, gonorrhea, and pelvic inflammatory disease requiring hospitalization among sexually experienced adolescent and young adult women in 1971 and 1976 were highest in adolescents and declined exponentially with increasing age.