PMID: 22584855May 16, 2012Paper

Comparative study between the pH test and of the KOH versus Nugent score for diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis in pregnant women

Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetrícia : revista da Federação Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
Ana Aurélia Salles CamposEduardo de Souza

Abstract

To assess the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis and to compare the accuracy of testing pH and KOH with the Nugent gradient, the gold standard for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis (BV) in asymptomatic and symptomatic pregnant women at low risk. We conducted a cross-sectional study on 321 pregnant women with gestational age between 14 and 26 weeks, 218 of them asymptomatic and 103 with vaginal complaints suggestive of bacterial vaginosis. All women were assessed by the criteria of Nugent and subjected to the measurement of vaginal pH and to the 10% KOH test. The Kappa coefficient was used to evaluate the methods in terms of diagnostic agreement. Most patients were adolescents (mean age 21.0 ± 5.6 years), nulliparous and mulattos. The prevalence of bacterial vaginosis was 33.3% as estimated by the pH and KOH method and 35.5% by the Nugent method. Excellent agreement of the methods was found among asymptomatic pregnant women, with 72.5% of them showing negative results to both tests, which resulted in a high Kappa coefficient (k=0.82). The group of symptomatic women showed 49.5% positivity to both diagnostic methods, with excellent agreement (k=0.74). The prevalence of bacterial vaginosis determined by both the pH and KOH metho...Continue Reading

Citations

Mar 15, 2014·Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P·Thais Marques LimaAna Kelve de Castro Damasceno
Oct 16, 2019·Revista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecología·Lucila Del Carmen Gómez-RodríguezAlexander Parody-Muñoz

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Bacterial Vaginosis

Bacterial vaginosis can increase the risk of sexually transmitted infections and in rare cases lead to pelvic inflammatory diseases. Discover the latest research on Bacterial Vaginosis here.

Related Papers

BJOG : an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
E W HarvilleA H Herring
Zhonghua fu chan ke za zhi
S FanC Chen
The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research
M PurwarH Kulkarni
© 2021 Meta ULC. All rights reserved