Trichomonas and haematospermia.

Testicular angioleiomyoma presenting with haematospermia.

Dear editors, We report an exceedingly rare case of primary testicular angioleiomyoma to increase awareness of this rare entity among urologists and pathologists. To our knowledge, only one case of this rare testicular tumour has been reported in the literature to date, and this is the first report of its presentation with haematospermia. A 65-year-old patient was admitted to our clinic for the...

Haematospermia associated with malignant hypertension.

Haematospermia is generally regarded as a benign, self limiting condition. Although no obvious cause is found in most cases, an uncommon but important predisposing factor is severe uncontrolled hypertension. We describe a case illustrating the need to routinely measure blood pressure in such instances.

Trichomonas empyema.

Tricky trichomonas

I ended a relationship about a year ago. I have always seemed to have a yeast infection when I went to doctors before. In my relationship I had went to the doctors before because of discharge and just told them I didn?t need to really be looked at because I know what it is. Well at the end of my relationship I went to the doctor to get a whole check-up. Come to find out that what I thought was ...

Trichomonas vaginalis

We have investigated the effects of a novel neutrophil-activating factor released by Trichomonas vaginalis (TV-NAF) on neutrophil chemotaxis. TV-NAF was present in the supernatant from 107 T. vaginalis (STV) cultured in 1 ml of serum-free Hanks' balanced salt solution (HBSS) at 37°C for 30 min. With a multichamber chemotactic assay, we found that there were 112 + 15 migrated neutrophils (mean ±...