ACUTE EPIDIDYMITIS PRODUCED BY MUSCULAR STRAIN

Acute abdomen caused by both acute appendicitis and epididymitis.

Acute appendicitis often presents as right lower quadrant (RLQ) pain, severe tenderness at the point of McBurny or Lanz, and Blumberg's sign. Scrotal events with appendicitis are very rare. In our case, a 63-year-old Japanese man presented with severe RLQ pain and high fever. Physical examination revealed severe tenderness (including both points of McBurny and Lanz) and Blumberg's sign. The scr...

Microbiological survey of acute epididymitis.

In an 18 month period, 198 men presented with a painful, swollen, and tender epididymis or testicular or scrotal pain. Fifty were excluded from analysis because of prior antibiotic treatment or a history of the disease, or both. Of the remaining patients, epididymitis was not diagnosed in 108, though 23 (21%) of them had urethritis. Thus 40 men were seen who had acute unilateral epididymitis. O...

Acute epididymitis: a work-related injury?

Occupational medicine physicians frequently are presented with requests by employers to determine the work-relatedness of medical illnesses or injuries. Occasionally, this involves a sudden onset of acute epididymitis in the male employee after strenuous activity in the workplace. Because the vast majority of acute epididymitis cases have an underlying sexually transmitted disease component, th...

Microbiology of acute epididymitis in a developing community.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the aetiology of acute epididymitis in a developing community with a view of determining appropriate antimicrobial therapy. SETTING City Health Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic, King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban, South Africa. PARTICIPANTS 144 adult men with clinically diagnosed acute epididymitis. METHOD Endourethral swab and midstream urine (MSU) specimens w...

Some properties of Beta Toxin produced by Clostridium haemolyticum strain IRP 13