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Urethritis in men at the Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic Kuala Lumpur Hospital

Gangaram HB 1 , Akbal K 2 , Gan AT 3 , Hussein SH 4 , Mangalam S 5 , Rohani Y 6 Show all authors , Lai PF 7

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  • 1 H B Gangaram, FRCP. Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic, Department of Dermatology, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Pahang, 50586 Kuala Lumpur
  • 2 K Akbal, Dip Dermatology. Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic, Department of Dermatology, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Pahang, 50586 Kuala Lumpur
  • 3 A T Gan, FRCP. Gan Skin Specialist Clinic, 1st Floor, Wisma Tai Yoon, 9A, Lorong Medan Tuanku Satu, 50300 Kuala Lumpur
  • 4 S H Hussein, FRCP. Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic, Department of Dermatology, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Pahang, 50586 Kuala Lumpur
  • 5 S Mangalam, MRCPath. Department of Clinical and Tropical Medicine, Institute for Medical Research, Jalan Pahang, 50588 Kuala Lumpur
  • 6 Y Rohani, MPath. Department of Clinical and Tropical Medicine, Institute for Medical Research, Jalan Pahang, 50588 Kuala Lumpur
  • 7 P F Lai, PhD. Department of Clinical and Tropical Medicine, Institute for Medical Research, Jalan Pahang, 50588 Kuala Lumpur
Med J Malaysia, 2003 Mar;58(1):21-6.
PMID: 14556323 MyJurnal

Abstract

The clinical features and aetiology of 100 consecutive symptomatic heterosexual male patients with urethritis were studied from March 1994 to August 1994 in the Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) Clinic, Kuala Lumpur Hospital. Gonococcal urethritis (GU) was found to be more common (53%) than non-gonococcal urethritis(47%). All patients with GU confirmed microbiologically had clinically evident urethral discharge. Almost half (41%) of the patients with GU developed post-gonococcal urethritis (PGU). The most common organism isolated in PGU was Ureaplasma urealyticum (37%) whilst only 4% had both Chlamydia trachomatis and Ureaplasma urealyticum. Of the 47% of patients with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), 50% had no microorganism isolated, 32% had Ureaplasma urealyticum, 7% Chlamydia trachomatis and 11% both Chlamydia trachomatis and Ureaplasma urealyticum.

Study site: Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) Clinic, Hospital Kuala Lumpur

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