Therapy of urethral infusion of the urethritis caused by chlamydia
trachomatis or/and ureaplasm urealyticum
GUO Li-jun YAN Dong-wen
(Department of Urology,Gansu Province People′s Hospital,Lanzhou, 730000)
HE Chuan-feng
(Da′an Gene Diagnostic Center, Sun Yat-sen Uinversity of Medicine Science)
Abstract Purpose:To evaluate the effects of urethral infusion with erythromycin and steroid for treatment of the male urethritis caused by chlamydia trachomatis (CT) or/and ureaplasm urealyticum (UU).Methods:150 patients with the symptom of ureathritis,the examination of urethral discharge CT or/and UU (FQ-PCR) being positive without being complicated by gonorrhea,epididymitis,prostatitis were chosen. All 150 patients were divided at random into 3 groups. Each group contained 50 patients.Group 1——Taking drugs,the patients took erythromycin (Faulding Pharmaceuticals) orally;Group 2——Urethral infusion,the patients were infused with 1% erythomycin lactobionate and 0.5% dexamethasoni natrii phosphatis into their urethrae;Group 3——Control,the patients were infused with normal saline for 10 days as a course.Results:All the patients experienced the treatment for one or two courses with the results:Group 1,31 cases were cured,4 cases improved,15 cases failure;Group 2,41 cases were cured,5 cases improved,4 cases failure;Group 3,4 cases were cured,2 cases improved,44 cases failure.Conclusions:The treatment of urethral infusion with erythromycin and steroid had more effective than that of taking drugs orally (P<0.05) and much more effective than that of the control group (P<0.005). And this method had less harmful effects.
Key words Urethral infusion Non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) Chlamydia trachomatis Ureaplasm urealyticum