ANALYSIS OF COMPLICATED CERVICAL ECTOPY CLINICAL COURSE AND RECURRENCE

  • Yuliya Mazur Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Ukraine
  • Vira Pyrohova Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Ukraine
Keywords: recurrent cervical ectopy, clinical course, treatment, prevention

Abstract

Physiological cervical ectopy (CE) is commonly found in young women, during pregnancy or intake of oral contraceptives. The complicated (pathological) CE, particularly in conditions of vaginal microbiota disturbances and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, requires intervention, including optimal treatment and effective relapse prevention approaches.

Aim. The aim of the research was to investigate the complicated CE clinical course and recurrence features on the basis of a retrospective analysis of archival medical records in order to optimize the tactics of the complicated CE management and the relapse prevention measures.

Materials and methods. In the observational cross-sectional retrospective study using the continuous sampling method were included 740 case reports of women, who underwent inpatient treatment of gynecological pathology in Lviv Municipal Clinical First Aid Hospital in 2006–2017. The inclusion criterion was the presence of firstly diagnosed or recurrent CE. Exclusion criteria: absence of CE colposcopic or morphological confirmation, presence of physiological CE (on conditions of cytological, bacterioscopical, bacteriological and colposcopical abnormalities absence). Subsequently, three groups were formed: control group (n=150) – healthy women, who applied for a regular gynecological examination; group 1 (n=483) – women with firstly diagnosed CE; group 2 (n=257) – women with recurrent CE. Differences in mean values were considered significant with a probability level of at least 95 % (p<0.05).

Results. Patients with recurrent CE had more pregnancies (p<0.05) than the ones with firstly diagnosed CE and women of control group. The proportion of women with high parity in group 1 and group 2 was three times higher (p<0.05), than in group 3. The proportion of artificial abortions in patients of groups 1 and 2 was more than two times higher (p<0.05), than in women in the control group, group 2 patients had more miscarriages and missed miscarriages(p<0.05) in comparison to the control group. Menarche in patients with recurrent CE set in later in comparison to women of control group (p<0.05). In group 2, the proportion of women with polymenorrhea was three times higher (p<0.05), than in group 1 and control group respectively. The compromised gynecological history was more often (p<0.05) detected in group 1 and group 2, than in the control group. In patients with recurrent CE a third of gynecologic diseases in the history (32.30±2.92 %) and 23.60±1.93 % - in patients with the firstly diagnosed CE were pelvic inflammatory diseases, significantly (p<0.05) higher in comparison to the control group (3.33±1.47 %). Almost half of patients in group 1 (48.25±2.27 %) and group 2 (47.84±3.13 %) had the history of frequent infectious diseases, this indicator was significantly (p<0.05) higher in comparison to the control group (24.67±3.52 %). In patients with recurrent CE chronic diseases of different etiology were diagnosed more often (p<0.05) - their share made up 8.24±1.72 %, while in patients with firstly diagnosed CE - 4.33±0.92 %, in women of the control group - 1.33±0.94 %.The firstly diagnosed CE was more frequent (in comparison to recurrent CE) (p<0.001) characterized by asymptomatic course, whereas about half of patients with recurrent CE (46.69±3.11 %) presented with different complaints. Cytological indicators of cervicitis were found more often in patients with firstly diagnosed and recurrent CE, than in women of control group, as well as vaginal candidosis (p<0.05). Patients with recurrent CE more often (p<0.05) underwent diathermoconization (24.12±2.67 %) and cryodestruction of the cervix (8.17±1.71 %) in comparison to patients of group 1. The most often performed treatment method in patients of both groups was diathermoconization. Treatment methods aimed to restore the hormonal balance, to normalize the state of vaginal microbiota were rarely found in both group 1 and 2, drugs that affect the reparation and regeneration of the epithelium have not been used in any case.

Conclusions. Recurrent symptomatic complicated CE should be interpreted as a complex problem that requires a multi-polar approach aimed at hormonal homeostasis, local immunity, and vaginal biocenosis normalizing. These measures should precede invasive treatment and further create optimal conditions for regeneration of the cervix.

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Author Biographies

Yuliya Mazur, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University

Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology FPGE

Vira Pyrohova, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University

Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology FPGE

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2018-01-31
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Mazur, Y., & Pyrohova, V. (2018). ANALYSIS OF COMPLICATED CERVICAL ECTOPY CLINICAL COURSE AND RECURRENCE. EUREKA: Health Sciences, (1), 17-26. https://doi.org/10.21303/2504-5679.2018.00563
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