ABSTRACT
The purpose of prophylactic antibiotics is to avert the serious infections, which may intervene. Women with antedating problems (chronic cervicitis, repeated episodes of sexually transmitted disease with or without structural damage) and abnormal vaginal flora [bacterial vaginosis (BV) or bacterial excess syndrome (BES)] and individuals in whom hemostasis will be difficult to obtain for physiologic or anatomic reasons, or in whom surgery is anticipated to be difficult, are at augmented risk.
