Vulvovaginal Infections

William J. Ledger, MD
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in Chief, New York Weill Cornell Center, New York, USA

Steven S. Witkin, MD
Director - Division of Infection and Immunity, New York Weill Center, New York, USA

In gynaecological practice one third of patient complaints involve vulvo-vaginal infections. This book aims to help the practitioner towards accurate diagnosis, and provides suggestions for appropriate patient care that will avoid ineffective treatments and thus ongoing discomfort for the patient.

To avoid misdiagnoses the authors outline the correct testing and screening processes that should be used. Two sections of therapy follow: the first outlines the standard accepted modes of therapy, and the second is for patients who fail to respond to the medication prescribed, or who respond and then become symptomatic again after the treatment has ended.

This book will be useful to Gynaecologists in practice and in training, and for Physicians working in emergency departments, outpatient clinics and general practice.

Contents

Preface

Section 1: Scientific Basis for the Care of Women with Vulvo Vaginitis

1. Microbiology of the Vagina
2. Vaginal immunology
3. Diagnosis of Vulvovaginal disease

Section 2: Vulvo-Vaginal Infections

4. Candida Vulvovaginitis
5. Bacterial vaginosis
6. Trichomonas vaginalis vaginitis
7. Desquamative Inflammatory vaginitis
8. Genital herpes
9. Human papilloma virus
10. Other sexually transmitted diseases
11. Staphylococcus aureus and group A streptococcal infections of the vagina and vulva

Section 3: Non-Infectious Vulvo-Vaginitis

12. Allergic vulvovaginitis
13. Menopausal vulvovaginitis
14. Vulvodynia
15. Dermatologic conditions causing vulvo-vaginitis

Index