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Query: UMLS:C0740577 (acute abdominal pain)
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A case history of an 18-year-old woman admitted 2 days after undergoing a therapeutic abortion with acute abdominal pain is reported. The patient denied nausea or vomiting, but she appeared very ill with a temperature of 38.3 degrees centigrade. Pelvic examination was normal. The possibility of gonococcal perihepatitis was considered. When endocervical secretions were Gram-stained, gram-negative intracellular diplococci and neisseria gonorrhoeae were cultured. The patient had only 1 sexual partner, but that partner had had intercourse with at least 2 other women during the same period he was intimate with the patient. The patient responded to intravenous penicillin and was discharged after 5 days of treatment. It was suspected that dissemination of the gonococci was during the therapeutic abortion via the fallopian tubes. Neither the patient nor her partner, it was emphasized, showed genital symptoms, therefore the need to screen potential abortion patients is acute with gonorrhea at the epidemic stage.
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PMID:Occurrence of gonococcal perihepatitis after therapeutic abortion. 44 81