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Vagina
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polymenorrhea | less than 21 day intervals between menses |
| Oligomenorrhea | infrequent bleeding |
| Menorrhagia | excessive flow |
| Metorhagia | intermenstrual bleeding |
| Postcoital bleeding | bleeding right after vaginal sex, cervical polyps or cancer, or atrophic vaginitis |
| Non-infective vaginal discharge | Physiological (white, clear, nonoffensive, varies with the menstrual cycle), foreign bodies (tampon), Vulval dermatitis |
| STI vaginal discarge | Gonorrhea (mucopurulent, thick, yellow green). Chlamydia (mucopurulent), Trichomonas vaginalis (offensive, yellowing, profuse, frothy+itching) |
| Non-sexually transmitted infection | Bacterial vaginosis (Watery, profuse, gray, fishy smelling), Candidiasis (thick, white, non-offensive, curd like+itching) |
| Sexual health questions | gender, orientation, satisfaction, libido, arousal, orgasm, Pain with intercourse (dyspareunia) |
| Bartholin glands | for labial swelling, insert index finger into the vagina near the posterior introitus, place your thumb outside, palpate each side |
| Pap smear | One from endocervix, one from ectocervix, patient should not be mentruating, avoiding intercourse, use douches, tampons, contraceptive foams, creams, vaginal suppositories 48 hours before exam. Check for chlamydia. |
| Fundal height with pregnancy | 10-12 within pelvis, 12 above symphysis pubis, 16 between symphysis and ubilicus, 20 uterine fundus at lower border of umbilicus, 24-26 gobular to ovoid, 28 halfway between umbilicus and xiphoid, 34 below xiphoid, 40 height drops |
| Trichomonas | saline wet mount |
| Candidal vaginitis | KOH prep |
| Bacterial vaginosis | Saline wet mount and whiff test |
| Gonorrhea | gram stain and culture, newer PCR |
| Chlamydia | Nucleic acid amplification test |
| Anteverted uterus | lies in a forward position at roughly a right angle to the vagina, most common position |
| Anteflexed uterus | Forward flexion of the uterine body in relation to the cervix, often coexists with anteversion |
| Retroverted uterus | tilted posteriorly with its cervix facing anteriorly |
| retroflexed uterus | Has a posterior tilt that involves the uterine body but not the cervix |
| Prolapse Uterus | weakness of the supporting structures of the pelvic floor, associated with cystocele and retrocele. Usually becomes retroverted and decends down the vaginal canal. |
| Degrees of prolapse | 1st cervix is still well within the vagina, 2nd introitus, 3rd outside the vagina |
| PID | vaginal discharge/odor, painful intercourse, urination, irregular bleeding, and pain in right upper abdomen. Cannot tolerate bimanual exam. often caused by gonorrhea/chlamydia. Infection of reproductive organs. |
| Chronic PID | bilateral, tender, irregular, fairly fixed adnexal areas |