Contraceptive devices as a cause of urethritis
Dajek, Z.
Przeglad Dermatologiczny 75(5): 386-391
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2526 PMID: 3253811 Document Number: 322667
A group of 61 sexual partners were analyzed, including men reporting cases of urethritis and their partners using IUDs. Treatment with antibiotics recommended for NGU was most effective (17 or 21 cases) in those couples infected with chlamydia (group 1), less in couples without chlamydia infections (8 or 16), but maintaining sporadic sexual contacts with other partners (group 2), and was frequently ineffective (10 of 14) in couples without chlamydia infection and without a history of incidental sexual contacts with other partners (group 3). In cases of failure of antibiotic treatment, the symptoms and signs of urethritis regressed in males and inflammatory changes in vaginal discharge disappeared in their partners after IUD removal. In group 3, 10 of 24 couples were not given any antibiotics and IUD removal was the only treatment. (author's modified)