What is the difference between pelvic inflammatory disease and adnexitis?

In clinical practice, many people cannot tell the difference between pelvic inflammatory disease and adnexitis. It can be said that adnexitis is a type of pelvic inflammatory disease, but the two are essentially different. Pelvic inflammatory disease is an inflammation of the pelvic peritoneum, while adnexitis is an inflammation of the fallopian tubes and ovaries. These are two different diseases.

1. Definition

Adnexitis and pelvic inflammatory disease are two different inflammations. When the female internal reproductive organs and the surrounding connective tissue and pelvic peritoneum become inflamed, it is called pelvic inflammatory disease, while adnexitis is an inflammation of the fallopian tubes and ovaries. Therefore, these are two very different diseases, but both can cause great harm to the body, so timely treatment is necessary after becoming ill.

2. Symptoms

Adnexitis is a common disease caused by pathogenic microorganisms invading the reproductive organs and causing infection of the fallopian tubes and ovaries. The symptoms of acute adnexitis are obvious, such as fever, chills, and severe lower abdominal pain. Experts say that chronic adnexitis causes varying degrees of abdominal pain, or a feeling of heaviness and pulling in the lower abdomen, which may be mild or severe, accompanied by symptoms such as increased vaginal discharge, back pain, and menstrual disorders.

The symptoms of acute pelvic inflammatory disease are: it is an acute and severe disease, and may cause lower abdominal pain, fever, chills, headache, and loss of appetite. During the examination, the patient was found to be in an acute condition with a high temperature, a rapid heart rate, and muscle tension, tenderness, and rebound pain in the lower abdomen. Pelvic examination; there was copious purulent vaginal discharge. Experts say that the systemic symptoms of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease are mostly not obvious, sometimes there may be low fever, fatigue, a long course of disease, and some patients may have symptoms of neurasthenia.

3. Site of disease

The difference between pelvic inflammatory disease and adnexitis is that the site of adnexitis is the fallopian tube and ovary. Pelvic inflammatory disease refers to inflammation of the pelvic organs and surrounding tissues, including bilateral adnexitis, parametrial connective tissue inflammation, pelvic peritonitis, etc., which has a wider range than adnexitis. Due to the deep location of the pelvic cavity, it is difficult to treat and is one of the common gynecological diseases that is currently more difficult to treat. The common causes of pelvic inflammatory disease are infection after delivery and abortion. Unhygienic habits, sexual intercourse, and sexual intercourse during menstruation can all lead to the invasion of pathogens and cause inflammation. Pelvic inflammatory disease includes endometritis, salpingo-oophoritis, pelvic connective tissue inflammation and pelvic membranitis.