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A member asked:

My girlfriend has an ovarian cyst that ruptured . the doctor said it was caused by a bacterial infection i gave her?

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Dr. James Burns answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

Not sure: I would make that connection. You may want to ask for clarification and how he/she arrived at that diagnosis. I suppose anything may be possible but unless you have some type if genital infection i can't see the correlation.

Answered 3/22/2020

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