Patient's question:
Female, 30 years old, recently had a routine physical examination. After receiving the report, it indicated an HPV infection. Please explain what different HPV types represent.Doctor's answer:
HPV 44 positive indicates infection with this virus, which is a low-risk mucosal type human papillomavirus. If not treated clinically in a timely manner, it can develop into genital warts. In the early stage of HPV 44 infection, there are no visible symptoms, and common physical treatments are ineffective at this point. If genital warts appear at the infected site, treatments such as laser, cryotherapy, electrocautery, or photodynamic therapy are typically used, but the recurrence rate is very high. If traditional Chinese medicine methods are adopted for treatment, it can remove warts and clear the virus, treating both the symptom and the root cause, and prevent recurrence.