EPIDIDYMITIS AND ORCHITIS COMPLICATING TYPHOID.

Epididymitis and Orchitis

Epididymitis and orchitis: an overview.

Epididymitis and orchitis are commonly seen in the outpatient setting. Men between 14 and 35 years of age are most often affected, and Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are the most common pathogens in this age group. In other age groups, coliform bacteria are the primary pathogens. Men with epididymitis and orchitis typically present with a gradual onset of scrotal pain and sympt...

Typhoid orchitis.

A 34 years old police constable was admitted with one month history of continuous fever which increased in severity overaperiodof 15 days. It partly responded to antipyretics. He also had dysuria but no pyuna or hematuna. A day before admission he developed a painful left scrotal swelling. Family history revealed, that the patient’s wife had typhoid fever a month and a half ago with uneventful ...

Epididymo-orchitis complicating Streptococcus pyogenes throat infection.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 20 January 2003 178 2 89-89 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2002 www.mja.com.au Snapshot A 55-YEAR-OLD taxi driver presented with a three-week history of intermittent sore throat associated with fever and rigors, which responded to paracetamol. On the morning of admission, he woke with severe aching pain in the left groin radiating to the scrot...

A Case of Hemiplegia Complicating Typhoid Fever

Hemiplegia is one of the rare complications of typhoid fever. Osier and McCrae in their " Modern Medicine," 3rd edition, do not giv? any actual figures. Tice, in his 11 Practice ol Medicine," quotes 42 cases collected by Smithies of which six were fatal. Whatever the actual number of cases, cerebral lesions complicating typhoid are sufficiently uncommon to call for note. A girl of fourteen year...