Valoración de alteraciones morfológicas e identificación de microorganismos presentes en cuello uterino en vendedoras de los mercados del cantón Pelileo.

Abstract

The objective is to assess the morphological alterations and microorganisms present in the cervix of the sellers of Pelileo Canton market. For this, the sample taken with the Papanicolaou technique and of vaginal discharge was analyzed in the medical dispensary of the Pelileo municipality. The study population is composed of 67 women registered in this place of sale. Within the sociodemographic results it was known that the age of the participants fluctuated between 28 to 67 years and 10% of these are 50 years old, 72% are marital status married, another 72% with primary education, 49% has had 1 to 3 pregnancies, 54% had the first sexual intercourse between 11 to 18 years, 57% said they did not use any contraceptive method while another 57% had their last pap smear between 2004 and 2017. the classification of the Bethesda system, it is evident that the universe studied, 10% of the participations have present morphological alterations of the cells in the vaginal flocks, among which are low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LIE-BG), intraepithelial lesion High-grade squamous cell (LIE-AG), uncertain cells (ASCUSAGUS) in women whose ages range from 41 to 55 years; In the same way, the analysis of vaginal secretion gave us the results of the existence of microorganisms such as Candida albicans, Gardnerella vaginalis with 31% of the participants. Thus, 10% of the participating women presented morphological alterations and 31% microorganisms; only 4% of them repeat both morphological alterations and microorganisms in their result. Therefore, it was recognized to start pharmacological treatment immediately according to medical prescription and to follow up women with alterations and avoid reaching uterine cancer.