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AMC MCQ - You Can Do It!!!!!❤️❤️ > STI > Flashcards

STI Flashcards

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Gonorrhoea

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  • Gonorrhoea is most commonly diagnosed in men who have sex with men, young (heterosexual) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • travellers returning from high prevalence areas overseas.
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae, (Gram-negative)
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Gonorrhoe - Clinical presentation

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  • often asymptomatic
  • Penile urethral discharge
  • Dysuria
  • Vaginal discharge
  • Dyspareunia with cervicitis
  • Conjunctivitis: purulent, sight-threatening
  • Anorectal symptoms: discharge, irritation, painful defecation, disturbed bowel function
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Gonorrhoe - Complication

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  • Epididymo-orchitis (uncommon): painful, red swollen testicle/s
  • Prostatitis (very rarely)
  • Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID): dyspareunia, intermenstrual bleeding, post-coital bleeding, discharge
  • Bartholin gland abscess
  • Disseminated disease (rarely):
    macular rash that may include necrotic pustules
    septic arthritis
  • Meningitis or endocarditis (rarely)
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Gonorrhoe - Diagnostic

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  • First pass urine (FPU) - NAAT
  • Penile urethral swab ( just if discharge)
  • Clinician-collected endocervical swab -best
  • Clinician-collected endocervical swab (men)
  • Pharyngeal swab (men)
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Gonorrhoe - Treatment uncomplicated

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  • Ceftriaxone 500 mg IMI, stat. in 2 mL 1% lignocaine+ Azithromycin 1 g PO, stat.

same treatment in pregnancy

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Gonorrhoe - Treatment Conjunctivitis

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  • Ceftriaxone 1 g IMI, stat. in 2 mL 1% lignocaine+
    Azithromycin 1 g PO, stat.
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Gonorrhoe - other MX

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  • no sexual contact for 7 days
  • Partner notification and testing ( 2 month back)
  • Notify health department
  • Testing for other STIs
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Chlamydia

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  • most commonly
  • Those < 30 years are at greatest risk.
  • Frequently asymptomatic.
  • Simple to test and treat.

Chlamydia trachomatis

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Chlamydia - Symptoms

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85%-90% have no symptoms

  • Dysuria
  • Penile urethral discharge
  • Vaginal discharge
  • Testicular pain
  • Pelvic Pain
  • Intermenstrual bleeding
  • Postcoital bleeding
  • Pain with sex - dyspareunia
  • Anorectal symptoms
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Clamydia - complications

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  • Epididymo-orchitis
  • Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
  • Infertility
  • Pregnancy - Ectopic pregnancy, Premature rupture of the membranes, preterm delivery, and low-birthweight infants
  • Reactive arthritis: arthritis, sometimes with concurrent rash and gastrointestinal symptoms
  • Cervicitis
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Perihepatitis
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Clamydia - Diagnostic

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  • First pass urin ( NAAT)
  • Endocervical swab
  • Anorectal swab
  • Pharyngeal swab

NAAT highly sensitive

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Chlamydia - Treatment

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For uncomlicated genital or pharyngial
* Doxycylin 100 mg for 7 days
* Alternative Azithromycin 1g, immed.

Anorectal asymptomatic
* Doxycylin 100 mg for 7 days
* Alternative Azithromycin 1g, immedi repeat in 12-24 hrs

Anorectal symptomatic
* Doxycylin 100 mg for 21 days
* Alternative Azithromycin 1g, stat repeat in 12-24 hrs

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Chlamydia - further MX

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  • No sexual contact for 7 days or until symptoms resolved
  • Contact tracing and testing 6 month
  • notify health department

Pregnancy : Azythromycin 1g immed

Retest in 3 month

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Syphillis

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  • high prevalence : homosexual, Abor/torres
  • in pregnancy - congenital syphylis ( urgent specialist advice

Treponema Palidum

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Syphillis- Clinic

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  • 50% asymptomatic
  • mimic many other conditions , consider testing in all pat with unexplained symptoms
  • 3 stages

early infectious
late latent
tertiary or late symptomatic

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Syphylis - early

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  • primary and secondary and early latent infection
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Syphylis - Primary

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  • genital, anal, oral ulcer (chancre)
  • enlarge LN, rubbery non tender
  • mostly painless
  • Incubation 10-90 days
  • high infectious
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Syphylis - secondary

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  • more than 6 weeks after infection
  • systemic signs and symptoms
  • fever, malaise, headache and Lymphadenopathy
  • rash( 90%) trunk, palms and soles
  • Incubation averrage 6 Weeks
  • highly infectious
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Syphylis - early latent

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  • <2 years
  • positive syphilis serology with no clinical symptoms
  • high infectious
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Syphylis - late

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  • > 2years
  • absence of any symptoms
  • no longer infectious to sexual partners but transmitted during pregnancy
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syphylis - Tertiary

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  • development of complication:
    Skin lessions ( gumma)
    Cardiovascular
    neurological (visual changes, tinnitus, deafness, cranial nerve palsies, meningitis), require intravenous treatment.)
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Syphylis - congenital

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  • severe multi-organ disease with very high mortality and morbidity in both in-utero and neonatal periods
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Syphylis - Diagnostic

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  • Blood Serolgy ( antibody)
  • Swab of ulcer (NAAT/PCR)
  • Test in pat with HIV
  • In remote Australia include donovanosis Pcr
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Syphilis Treatment early stage

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  • Benzathine benzylpenicillin 2.4 MU (1.8 g) IMI, Stat, given as 2 injections containing 1.2 MU
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Syphilis Treatment Late/ unclear stage

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  • Benzathine benzylpenicillin 2.4 MU (1.8 g) IMI, given as 2 injections containing 1.2 MU (0.9 g)

weekly for 3 weeks

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Syphilis - further Mx

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  • no sexual contact for 7 days or symptoms resolve
  • Contact tracing
  • Notify health department
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Discharge

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Bacterial vaginosis: thin, grey-white, offensive and fishy odour

Candidiasis: thick, white, non-offensive

Chlamydia and M. genitalium: minimal discharge or purulent (cervicitis)

Gonorrhoea: purulent (cervicitis)

* Trichomoniasis: offensive green and yellow, scanty to profuse and frothy (vaginitis)

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Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction

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  • common reaction to treatment in patients with primary and secondary syphilis
  • 6-12 hours after commencing treatment
  • fever, headache, malaise, rigors and joint pains, and lasts for several hours
  • analgesics and rest
  • Patients should be alerted to the possibility of this reaction and reassured accordingly.

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