What's the difference between endometritis and metritis?
Endometritis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the endometrium.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 20 patients (18.2%), visualization revealed uterine abnormalities, mainly newly added endometrial lesions, i.e., hyperplasia, polyps, endometritis, and synechiae.
(2) A pilot study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of gas in the puerperal endometrial cavity and to determine whether this finding has any relationship to the mode of delivery or to the development of puerperal endometritis.
(3) A prospective study of 505 unselected women presenting for induced abortion was undertaken to determine the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and to determine if cervical isolation of C trachomatis before abortion increases the risk of postabortal endometritis.
(4) Intra-amniotic infection (six of 16 versus 26 of 120) and endometritis (four of ten versus three of 94) were significantly more common in group B streptococcus patients.
(5) Ten of these had either conjunctivitis, cystitis, prostatitis, periovarian cysts, endometritis or a combination of the diseases.
(6) Patients with enterococcus-associated endometritis also were significantly more likely to have wound infection (15.7 versus 3.2%, respectively; P = .001).
(7) Guinea pigs treated with estradiol or progesterone plus estradiol manifested an acute endometritis not observed in animals treated with progesterone alone or in controls receiving sesame oil.
(8) Among women, chlamydia-mediated diseases include urethritis, cervicitis, endometritis, and salpingitis.
(9) Three hundred eleven patients with post-cesarean endometritis were treated with clindamycin and gentamicin.
(10) A total of 2.2% (26 women) developed postoperative pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and 0.9% (13 women) developed endometritis.
(11) Results of transcervical culture in the endometritis patients most often demonstrated a polymicrobial picture.
(12) Chronic endometritis following post-abortion evacuation was considered the basis for the osseous metaplasia in her endometrium.
(13) Patients were less than 1 week post partum and each had a single, limited focus of infection including infection associated with a retained vaginal sponge, a cesarean section operative site, and endometritis.
(14) In patients with cesarean delivery (N = 124), prophylactic antibiotics (relative risk 0.54; P less than .0002) and high-virulence bacteria or Mycoplasma hominis (relative risk 1.4; P less than .01) predicted the incidence of endometritis, and in patients with vaginal delivery (N = 483), "bacterial vaginosis organisms" (relative risk 14.2; P less than .001) and aerobic gram-negative rods (relative risk 4.2; P less than .01) predicted endometritis.
(15) Subacute focal endometritis (SFE) has been associated with cervical Ureaplasma urealyticum colonization and is considered a significant indicator of pelvic adhesions or endometriosis.
(16) Microflora isolated from cattle with acute postnatal pus-catarrhal endometritis has been studied.
(17) Single-dose ceftizoxime prophylaxis significantly reduced the incidence of endometritis and febrile morbidity in high-risk patients undergoing cesarean section.
(18) The presence of plasma cells in the endometrium is essential to the diagnosis of chronic endometritis.
(19) Three llamas (3.3%) had endometritis with gland fibrosis that was graded 2B.
(20) These changes consisted of periglandular oedema and subacute endometritis in the uterus, secretory-cell hyperplasia with prevalence of neutral mucopolysaccharides in the cervix and hyperkeratinisation and colpitis in the vagina.
Metritis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the womb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Severity of metritis did not have a significant influence (P greater than or equal to 0.1) on the maximum retention time of the drug.
(2) Four pony mares were readily infected with the organism of contagious equine metritis by intracervical inoculation and one by coitus with an infected stallion.
(3) The most prevalent findings in reproductive tracts of 38 laboratory and 17 free-ranging Rhesus female monkeys were vaginitis, cervicitis, metritis, pelvic endometriosis and uterine adenomyosis.
(4) Reproduction of contagious equine metritis 1977 in Pony mares was achieved with cultures of an unclassified Gram-negative coccobacillus.
(5) Severe metritis followed premature rupture of the membranes during the early part of the third trimester.
(6) The disk method with Ericson and Bauer's solid nutrient media were employed to ascertain the drug resistance of a total of 54 strains of Escherichia coli, 25 strains of Staphylococcus aureus, 11 strains of Streptococcus pyogenes, 7 strains of Corynebacterium pyogenes, 7 strains of Streptococcus uberis, 2 strains of Streptococcus agalactiae, and 1 strain of Streptococcus disgalactiae isolated from utero-cervical exudate and milk samples of sows with clinical symptoms of mastitis-metritis-agalactia (MMA).
(7) A two-year retrospective review of clinical cases of vaginitis and metritis found Escherichia coli and coagulase positive Staphylococci to be the most common pathogens isolated.
(8) Rates of twins, stillbirth, milk fever, prolapsed uterus, retained placenta, primary metritis, displaced abomasum, ketonuria, and aciduria were 5.8, 6.3, 1.4, 3, 17.8, 36.1, 1.7, 30.4, and 29.5%, respectively.
(9) Retained placenta, nonsystemic metritis, systemic metritis, ovarian cysts, and lameness were associated with a decrease in conception rate and an increase in median days open.
(10) Thirty-one strains of E. coli isolated from metritis, septicaemia and diarrhoea of animals were tested for the production of enterotoxins.
(11) This study identifies nonimmune binding of equine immunoglobulin by the causative organism of contagious equine metritis.
(12) Contagious equine metritis (CEM) was first diagnosed in Australia in August 1977 and it has since been found on 6 farms in 3 states, having been isolated from about 24 mares and 2 stallions.
(13) Clinical mastitis and retained placenta are associated to nine diseases each, metritis, stillbirth and non-infectious foot disorders to six, dystocia and infectious foot disorders to four, pathology of calf and abortion to three, mammary edema and appetite disorders to two.
(14) The cow was treated medically for associated metritis and peritonitis.
(15) Characteristics of herds with high frequency of post-partum mastitis are the same that those from herds with high frequency of mastitis or metritis, their risk factors seeming to exert an effect on all infectious diseases.
(16) A web of postulated associations among the metabolic disorders and other risks factors (previous lactation diseases and milk yield, calf factors, certain dry period nutritional factors, dystocia, retained placenta, and metritis) was diagrammed.
(17) The ability of Haemophilus equigenitalis, the causal agent of contagious equine metritis 1977, to survive in various antibiotic-containing semen extenders was studied at different environmental temperatures.
(18) Metritis was diagnosed in 22% of the FTC cows, 48% of the NVO cows, and 12% of the cows with abnormal parturition.
(19) Twenty (58.8%) of 34 typable strains from metritis were lysed by the human group I phage 52, and group II phages 3A, 3C, 55 and 71.
(20) Fifty-four percent of subfertile cows had cervicitis without metritis.