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| | Circumcision as a Risk Factor for Urethritis |
 | | During the study, 9514 patients were seen for sexually transmitted disease. | | | However, circumcision was not associated with an increased incidence of GCU. | | | Judson FN: Epidemiology and control of nongonoccocal Urethritis and genital chlamydial infections: a review. |
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http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/STD/smith
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| | NGC - NGC Summary |
| | A detailed explanation of what non-gonococcal urethritis is and what causes it, with particular emphasis on the long term implications for the health of the patient and his partner | | | This is an important part of the management of non-gonococcal urethritis, and should take place 2 weeks after initiating therapy. | | | If patient symptomatic with no objective evidence of non-gonococcal urethritis, an early morning smear should be undertaken and if negative, reassure. |
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http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?ss=15&doc_id=3030&nbr=2256
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| | Urethritis |
| | For noninfectious urethritis or for urethritis with severe pain and spasm, add kava kava (Piper methysticum) to any of the above formulas. | | | Nutrition, herbs, and homeopathic remedies are useful in fighting infection, relieving pain, and stengthening the urinary system. | | | A periwash may be helpful in reducing pain with urination. |
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http://brainybrawn.com/IMCAccess/ConsConditions/Urethritiscc.html
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| | eMedicine - Urethritis : Article by Martha K Terris, MD, FACS |
| | Posttraumatic urethritis can occur in 2-20% of patients practicing intermittent catheterization and following instrumentation or foreign body insertion. | | | The primary focus of the examination is on the genitalia. | | | The questions can be quite personal, and the physician should take care to not appear disgusted, amused, or judgmental regarding the patient's sexual history. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2342.htm
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| | Urethritis : Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) : NYC DOHMH |
| | When urethritis is caused by herpes, there are usually sores or blisters on the skin of the penis, as well. | | | Take all your medication as directed, even if you feel better before the medicine is finished. | | | Many people with urethritis do not have symptoms. |
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http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/std/stdu2.shtml
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| | Male Circumcision: Correlation with Increased Incidence of Urethritis and HPV Infection |
| | In 68% of the patients, histological analysis of the urethral mucosa showed a squamous metaplasia of the urethral epithelium associated with urethritis. | | | OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between circumcision and urethral human papillomavirus (HPV) lesions, and the influence of urethritis on the development of urethral HPV infections on inducing squamous metaplasia of the urethral epithelium. | | | The frequency of urethritis was related to the site of HPV lesions; urethritis was present in 36% of the patients with preputial HPV lesions, compared with 51% of those with urethral HPV lesions. |
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http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/STD/aynaud1
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| | Urethritis - PetPlace.com |
| | Address underlying cancer as indicated by surgery, radiation or chemotherapy | | | Rosie T. You are in Dog Medical Library | | | Anti-inflammatory drugs are indicated in cases of idiopathic chronic active granulomatous urethritis. |
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http://www.petplace.com/articles/artshow.asp?artID=4569
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| | Non-gonococcal urethritis |
| | Post-gonococcal urethritis refers to urethritis occurred after curative therapy for urethra gonorrhoea. | | | Understandably, patient may be very anxious about their urethritis. | | | However, not infrequently, patients may visit the clinic with persistent urethral symptom despite adequate treatments and negative signs. |
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http://www.hkmj.org.hk/skin/ngu.htm
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| | Nongonococcal Urethritis Clinical Resources |
| | Non-Gonococcal Urethritis and Non-Specific Genital Infection: Access document | | | Ferri: Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient 6th Ed.-2004 (MD Consult): | | | Diseases Characterized by Urethritis and Cervicitis: Access document |
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http://guam-dl.slis.ua.edu/clinical/std/urethritis/ngu.html
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| | NNPTC: Core Training Programs: STD Clinical Training |
| | There should be document objective signs of urethritis before initiating antimicrobial therapy. | | | Most of these patients have penile lesions but some do not. | | | Effective regimens have not been identified for treating patients who experience persistent symptoms or frequent recurrences following treatment. |
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http://depts.washington.edu/nnptc/core_training/clinical/clinical_curriculum/urethritis.html
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| | MoonDragon's Obgyn Information & Discussion - Urethritis |
| | Bacterial infection that spreads and enters the urethra from the skin around the genitals and anal area. | | | Chronic urethritis and cystitis, if treatment is inadequate. | | | Other causes could be trauma from an injury or surgery, or from a chemical such as an antiseptic. |
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http://www.moondragon.org/obgyn/disorders/urethritis.html
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| | Medical Encyclopedia: Urethritis - chronic (Print Version) |
| | Safer sex behaviors can decrease the risk of developing STDs (sexually transmitted diseases), which can cause urethritis. | | | The major symptoms of urethritis, painful urination and urinary frequency, are quite common. | | | See your health care provider if symptoms of chronic urethritis occur. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/print/ency/article/001277.htm
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| | Urethritis |
| | Your provider may also look for drying and thinning of the tissues in your genital area. | | | In men, symptoms are painful urination or discharge from the urethra. | | | In the case of postmenopausal tissue changes treated with estrogen, it may be 6 weeks to 3 months before you have some relief from your symptoms. |
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http://scc.uchicago.edu/urethritis.htm
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| | Dr. Koop - Urethritis - chronic |
| | You should promptly seek professional medical care if you have any concern about your health, and you should always consult your physician before starting a fitness regimen. | | | The major symptoms of urethritis, painful urination and urinary frequency, are quite common. | | | It may also be associated with a variety of systemic diseases, including emotional disorders. |
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http://www.drkoop.com/ency/1/001277.html
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| | Urethritis |
| | You don't have to see Dr. Dork if you don't want to, a "health care provider" can also assess and treat you. | | | If you have any of the symptoms below, you should see a health care provider immediately as complications can develop if the urethritis is left untreated. | | | Here is a lab dude who you might see one day if they were also doing more tests on your urine or blood if your urethritis was recurring or your health care provider was concerned about another condition. |
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http://www.coolnurse.com/urethritis.htm
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| | NonGonococcal Urethritis |
| | The winner of the Thomas Parran Award of the American Venereal Disease Association presents a history of NGU and summarizes his research. | | | Comparison of azithromycin and doxycycline in the treatment of non-gonococcal urethritis in men. | | | Gonococcal urethritis is diagnosed clinically if intracellular gram-negative diplococci are observed; NGU is more likely if these organisms are not evident. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/wa/thestrangest/aboutngu.html
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| | Nonspecific Urethritis in Men |
| | Once you begin treatment, the problem should begin to clear up in about a week. | | | Injury to the urethra by trauma, surgery, or chemicals can cause urethritis. | | | Nonspecific urethritis is often an aftermath of unprotected sex. |
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http://www.healthsquare.com/mc/fgmc0811.htm
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| | Urethritis |
| | This practice guideline on the management of non-gonococcal urethritis was produced by the Clinical Effectiveness Group of the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases (MSSVD). | | | NB this guideline is made available on the Web by the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), which was formed in 2003 through the merger of the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases (MSSVD) and the Association for Genito-Urinary Medicine (AGUM). | | | Prodigy is a project that aims to support GPs during a patient consultation, and is funded by the Department of Health (DoH) and developed by the Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics at Newcastle (SCHIN). |
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http://omni.ac.uk/browse/mesh/D014526.html
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| | NSU/Non specific urethritis |
| | For health care workers managing patients with urethritis | | | If neither gonorrhoea nor chlamydia can be isolated, the condition is known as non-specific urethritis. | | | Urethritis is inflammation of the urethra (the passage in the penis that urine and semen pass through). |
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http://www.stdservices.on.net/std/nsu
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| | Chlamydia/Nongonococcal Urethritis - WomensHealthChannel |
| | We subscribe to the HONcode principles of the Health On the Net Foundation | | | The term NGU refers to the condition in men and chlamydia refers to the condition in women. | | | Nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) is a nongonorrheal bacterial infection of the urethra (tube that carries urine out of the body) in men. |
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http://www.womenshealthchannel.com/std/chlamydiaNongon.shtml
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| | Nongonococcal Urethritis (NGU) |
| | Should I talk to my health care provider about NGU? | | | NGU (NonGonococcal Urethritis) is an infection of the urethra caused by pathogens (germs) other than gonorrhea. | | | An NGU diagnosis is made when a man has urethritis (inflammation of the urethra), but gonorrhea is ruled out because he has a negative gonorrhea culture and/or gram stain. |
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http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/ngu.html
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| | Urethritis - Patient UK |
| | For sites and information on Evidence Based Medicine. | | | They have not been checked to see if Urethritis information is included but these large sites are comprehensive. | | | The following list popular non-UK health information sites, mainly from the US. |
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http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/1219/ShowDoc.asp?doc=17
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| | Misdiagnosis of Underlying Causes of Urethritis - CureResearch.com |
| | Urethritis as a symptom: Conditions listing Urethritis as a symptom may also be potential underlying conditions: | | | These are other medical conditions that may possibly cause Urethritis. | | | Urethritis as a complication: Other conditions that might have Urethritis as a complication might be potential underlying conditions. |
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http://www.cureresearch.com/u/urethritis/underly.htm
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| | Non-gonococcal urethritis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The symptoms of urethritis can include pain upon urination (dysuria), and cloudy urine. | | | Urethritis can be caused by a number of organisms, including Neisseria gonorrheae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma genitalium, Trichomonas vaginalis, Herpes simplex virus, and Candida albicans, and by a number of non-infectious causes, including urethral stricture, foreign bodies, trauma, Reiter's syndrome, and various autoimmune and allergic conditions. | | | If tests for gonorrhea and chlamydia are negative, and the cause of the urethritis has not been otherwise identified, the term non-specific urethritis (NSU) is used. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-gonococcal_urethritis
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| | 7.2.1 Urethritis- Etiology |
| | Most, but not all patients with HSV urethritis have visible penile lesions. | | | Ureaplasma- urethral colonization in men without urethritis is common but has been associated with clinical urethritis in men without any other discernible cause. | | | Yeast- rarely detected in urethritis study but some men with balanitis have symptoms of urethritis. |
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http://www.bu.edu/cme/std/sec07/sec07-2.1.shtml
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| | Urethritis |
| | Antiviral drugs — to treat urethritis caused by a virus | | | Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. | | | The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history, and perform a physical exam. |
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http://healthgate.partners.org/browsing/browseContent.asp?fileName=11482.xml&title=Urethritis
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| | 7.04 Urethritis (Drip) |
| | Non-gonococcal urethritis is the most common sexually treated disease in US men. | | | Urethritis in a female may be asymptomatic or indistinguishable from cystitis or vaginitis, or may be manifest as UTI symptoms with a low concentration of bacteria on urine culture, or tenderness localized to the anterior vaginal wall. | | | Many gonorrhea victirns develop a rebound urethritis, probably with chlamydia, following single dose antibiotic treatment. |
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http://www.ncemi.org/cse/bak/cse0704.htm
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| | Misdiagnosis of Urethritis - WrongDiagnosis.com |
| | About misdiagnosis: When checking for a misdiagnosis of Urethritis or confirming a diagnosis of Urethritis, it is useful to consider what other medical conditions might be possible misdiagnoses or other alternative conditions relevant to diagnosis. | | | These alternate diagnoses of Urethritis may already have been considered by your doctor or may need to be considered as possible alternative diagnoses or candidates for misdiagnosis of Urethritis. | | | Urethritis as an alternative diagnosis: The other diseases for which Urethritis is listed as a possible alternative diagnosis in their lists include: |
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http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/u/urethritis/misdiag.htm
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| | Nongonococcal urethritis |
| | The disease is communicable from the time of first infection until the patient is cured. | | | "Azithromycin for Empirical Treatment of Nongonococcal Urethritis Syndrome in Men." Journal of the American Medical Association 274 (16 Aug. 1995): 545-9. | | | Men between the ages of 15 and 30 who have multiple sex partners are most at risk for nongonococcal urethritis (NGU), which is believed to be the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States. |
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http://www.rwjhamilton.org/Atoz/ency/nongonococcal_urethritis.asp
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| | Urethritis |
| | (a) Acute Urethritis and cystitis usually present with fever, and generalised body aches and pains. | | | The treatment for these syndromes using herbal medicine and acupuncture is shown below. | | | Traditional Chinese Medicine includes them in the category of "Lin (stranguria) Syndrome", which is caused by damp-heat flowing downward into the urinary bladder. |
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http://www.healthphone.com/consump_english/a_healing_center/urinary_tract_disorders/urethritis.htm
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| | urethritis -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | After puberty, the most common cause of the condition is gonorrhea, an infection spread... | | | The most frequent urethral infection is the venereal disease gonorrhea. | | | Although recognized only recently by public health officials, nongonococcal, or nonspecific, urethritis (NGU) is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9074464?tocId=9074464
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| | UCSB's SexInfo - Nongonococcal Urethritis |
| | NGU can also be caused by allergies or contraceptives. | | | Even if the symptoms of nongonococcal urethritis disappear after a couple of months, it is possible for the disease to still be present, so treatment should be sought. | | | Nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) is a bacterial sexually transmitted disease that is characterized as an inflammation of the urethra in males. |
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http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo?article=stds&refid=009
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| | [Male urethritis] |
| | The incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) is decreasing, but often take on a more subacute form, which may be difficult to detect. | | | Acute gonococcal urethritis, diagnosed by direct examination and culture (with antibiotic susceptibility testing) requires immediate single-dose treatment. | | | Chlamydia trachomatis urethritis is frequent and insidious and may cause a wide range of complications (serological diagnosis with raised IgG). |
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http://www.aegis.com/aidsline/1995/jun/M9560348.html
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| | Digital Urology Journal: Urethritis |
| | Because NSU is a syndrome caused by different organisms, treatment results are inconsistent. | | | The classic signs and symptoms of NSU are burning upon urination and a light discharge. | | | Neither the authors nor any other party who has been involved in the preparation or publication of this work warrants that the information contained herein is in every respect accurate or complete and they are not responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results obtained for the use of such information. |
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http://www.duj.com/urethritis.html
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| | AllRefer Health - Urethritis Prognosis (Expectations) |
| | You are here : AllRefer.com > Health > Diseases and Conditions > Urethritis: Prognosis of Urethritis | | | With appropriate diagnosis and treatment, urethritis usually clears up without any complications. | | | However, urethritis can lead to permanent damage to the urethra and other genitourinary organs in both men and women. |
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http://health.allrefer.com/health/urethritis-prognosis.html
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| | Urethritis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the diagnostic approach to urethritis, physicians classify the disease as gonococcal urethritis or non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), based on its causation. | | | Non-gonococcal urethritis, sometimes called non-specific urethritis (NSU), has both infectious and non-infectious causes. | | | This page was last modified 12:01, 3 September 2005. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urethritis
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| | URETHRITIS |
| | Urethritis is caused by bacteria, trauma, or as a reaction to bath oils and bubble baths. | | | Gonococcal urethritis classically produces a profuse and purulent discharge (A), whereas nongonococcal urethritis more often results in a scant mucoid discharge (B). | | | It may also be present during a bladder infection. |
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http://www.apma-nc.com/PatientEducation/urethritis.htm
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