Prognosis
Appropriate treatment with recommended antibiotics should resolve gonorrhoeal infections. The key related morbidity in women is infertility, ectopic pregnancy, and chronic pelvic pain secondary to pelvic inflammatory disease. In men, treatment will help prevent ascending infection to the prostate, epididymis, and testis. Death is rare but can be the result of disseminated infection.
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