Vaginal inflammatory status in pregnant women with normal and pathogenic microbiota in lower genital tract

SEBASTIAN GALIÑANES; ENRIQUE COPPOLILLO; MAXIMILIANO CIFARELLI; MARTHA CORA ELISEHT; ERCILIA PELLISA; MIRTA LOSADA; SEBASTIAN GRUCCIO; HILDA MALAMUD DE RUDA VEGA; CARLOS VAY; ANGELA FAMIGLIETTI; BEATRIZ PERAZZI

ISRN Obstetrics and Gynecology

International Scholarly Research Network .

Lugar: Nueva York; Año: 2011 vol. 2011 p. 1 - 5

2090-4436

Objective. To assess the vaginal inflammatory status (VIS) in pregnant women, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic, byleukocyte quantification in relation to the microbiota during each pregnancy trimester (T). Materials and Methods. A thousandtwo hundred and forty eight vaginal exudates from pregnant women were prospectively examined. All the patients underwent aclinical and colposcopic examination and a microbiological study of vaginal exudates. Leukocyte quantification was determined byMay-Grunwald Giemsa staining as LNR per field (400X). Results. Statistically significant differences (SSD) in LNR were observedin the VIS of asymptomatic patients (AP) compared with that of symptomatic ones (SP) with normal microbiota: 10?15 for the1st T, 25 for the 2nd T and >25 for the 3rd; with candidiasis: