STUDIES OF NON-GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS

Abstract

Lemological investigation, clinical tests, personality tests, bacteriological tests and treatment were conducted in a total of 135 patients with non-gonococcal urethritis who visited the urological outpatient clinic and others of the Nihon University Hospital during 1961. These procedures yielded new findings of interest whose deacription has not yet been found in the literature. The author reported the results at the symposium of the general meeting held in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of founding of the Japanese Society of Urology. The new findings are summarized as follows:
Those patients with non-gonococcal urethritis who were accompanied by chronic prostatitis whose relapse repeated itself frexuently comprised some who showed an increase in eosinocytes in peripheral blood. The massage of the prostate and 4-hour check-up of blood pictures in such patients disclosed that eosinocytes increased over 50 percent, as compared with those prior to the massage. This phenomenon was desifnated as prostatic eosinophilia. The phenomenon inhibited the rate of the decrease in eosinocytes in the Thorn test. A great many eosinocytes were noted in the secretion from the prostate of such patients. Trichomonas and unidentifiable microorganisms, the latter of which have not been referred to in the literature, could be demonstrated. Hence it seemed that the phenomenon might have a close relation to infection of the prostate with these microorganisms.