THERAPY OF GONOCOCCAL ARTHRITIS
Authors: P O HAGEMANN, A HENDIN, H H LURIE, M STEIN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1952)

Article1 January 1952THERAPY OF GONOCOCCAL ARTHRITISPAUL O. HAGEMANN, M.D., F.A.C.P., AARON HENDIN, M.D., HAROLD H. LURIE, M.D., MARVIN STEIN, M.D.PAUL O. HAGEMANN, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, AARON HENDIN, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, HAROLD H. LURIE, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, MARVIN STEIN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-36-1-77 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTherapeutic results in gonococcal arthritis have improved materially since the introduction of antibiotic agents. Detailed information regarding the efficacy of this therapy is sufficiently meager to justify the addition of results obtained in a recent series of cases.Evaluation of any therapeutic procedure necessitates an understanding of the natural course of the disease being studied. Untreated genital gonorrhea undergoes spontaneous cure in 17 per cent of cases.1Key2has stated that gonorrheal arthritis is, in many instances, a self-limited disease. In untreated patients, the incidence of complications such as prostatitis, epididymitis, salpingitis and arthritis is high, being 37.9 per cent...Bibliography1. CohnKornblithSteer ABAA: Observations on untreated patients with gonococcal infection and those receiving chemotherapy, Am. J. Syph., Gonor. and Ven. Dis. 25: 557, 1941. Google Scholar2. Key JA: Management of gonorrheal arthritis, South. M. J. 22: 469, 1929. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. Harkness AH: Gonococcal arthritis, M. Press 207: 60, 1942. Google Scholar4. SpinkKeefer WWCS: The diagnosis, treatment and end results in gonococcal arthritis, New England J. Med. 218: 453, 1938. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. KeeferRantz CSLA: Sulfanilamide in the treatment of gonococcal arthritis, Am. J. M. Sc. 197: 168, 1939. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: St. Louis Missouri*Received for publication November 20, 1950.From the Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis City Hospital, Homer G. Phillips Hospital and Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byDisseminated Gonococcal InfectionKING K. HOLMES, M.D., Ph.D., GEORGE W. COUNTS, M.D., HARRY N. BEATY, M.D., F.A.C.P.Recovery of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from “Sterile” Synovial Fluid in Gonococcal ArthritisClinical Forms of Gonococcal ArthritisMorbus ReiterDie Klinik der Gonorrhoe des Mannes. Die hämatogenen Komplikationen der GonorrhoeDie Behandlung der Gonorrhoe des MannesSex incidence of gonococcal arthritisRHEUMATISM AND ARTHRITIS REVIEW OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE OF RECENT YEARS (ELEVENTH RHEUMATISM REVIEW)* Part IIWILLIAM D. ROBINSON, M.D., F.A.C.P., JOSEPH J. BUNIM, M.D., F.A.C.P., WILLIAM S. 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