ORCHITIS FOLLOWING INFLUENZA.

Epididymo-orchitis following intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy.

OBJECTIVE To describe a case of epididymo-orchitis that developed four years after treatment with intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and to review the incidence of this adverse effect. DATA SOURCES Information about the patient was obtained from the medical chart. A MEDLINE search of English-language literature (from January 1976 to April 1999) was conducted. STUDY SELECTION All ca...

Non-traumatic testicular rupture following episode of epididymo-orchitis

Epididymo-orchitis is not uncommon in pediatric patients, and typically responds well to conservative treatment and antibiotics without additional sequelae. Testicular rupture is most commonly associated with testicular trauma, but has been reported in the adult population. We report the first case to our knowledge of nontraumatic, spontaneous testicular rupture in a pediatric patient being tre...

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 ...

Hemiparesis following influenza vaccination.

Accepted 10 March 1998 A 72-year-old woman presented with subacute, non-progressive weakness ofher left hand 2 weeks after receiving an influenza vaccination. Her spouse had noticed that she was walking unsteadily, with a tendency to fall to the left side. She also drooled from the left angle of the mouth. She denied any headache, fever, neck pain, alteration in consciousness or seizures. She h...

Epididymitis and Orchitis