Aplicación del papanicolaou en diagnóstico de las infecciones del tracto genital inferior. Centro de Salud Pascuales. Julio - diciembre 2017.

Abstract

Background: Infections of the lower genital tract constitute a public health problem due to its high morbidity and incidence of complications. Currently the ministry of health does not have availability of crops and antibiograms to carry out the diagnosis in a routine way. Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional prospective descriptive observational study, which included 390 patients between 20 and 60 years old attended in the paschal health center, the information was obtained from the clinical histories and results reports, was entered into a database in Excel to later process the information in the statistical program SPSS v.22 Results: The average age was 35.6 years with a fashion of 20; 97.4% of them were considered mestizas, only 53% of the patients finished the primary level; 80.7% initiated sexual life before the age of 20; 44% opted for hormonal contraception. Papanicolaou was normal in 42.6% of the samples, and 66.6% had alteration of the microbiota; In terms of clinical manifestations, vaginal discharge predominated over the other symptoms with 26.9%, there was more contamination of germs in the absence of symptoms, than in the presence of these Conclusions: The female population of the Pascuales health center is mostly young; He widely identified as mestizo and reached the average level of studies. The most commonly encountered symptom was vaginal discharge and vaginosis predominated as a cytological finding.