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Uretrite

Last reviewed: 8 Dec 2025
Last updated: 02 Jan 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • secreção uretral
  • irritação ou prurido uretral
  • disúria
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Other diagnostic factors

  • orquialgia
  • ausência de sensibilidade e/ou inchaço do epidídimo
  • ausência de dor na pelve (mulheres)
  • ausência de erupção cutânea pustular ou petequial
  • ausência de artrite
  • ausência de inflamação ocular
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Risk factors

  • idade entre 15 e 24 anos
  • sexo feminino
  • homens que fazem sexo com homens
  • novos ou vários parceiros sexuais
  • IST prévia ou atual
  • uso inconsistente de preservativo
  • circuncisão
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • coloração de Gram de secreção uretral e/ou sedimento da urina
  • testes de amplificação de ácido nucleico (NAATs)
  • cultura de secreção uretral
  • preparação com hidróxido de potássio da secreção uretral
  • teste de HIV
  • Teste de sífilis
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Tests to consider

  • urinálise e cultura
  • câmara úmida de secreção uretral (mulheres)
  • NAAT e cultura de urina ou swab uretral/vaginal para Trichomonas vaginalis
  • NAAT para outros organismos
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

Coloração de Gram inicial sugestiva de gonorreia: não gestante

coloração de Gram inicial sugestiva de gonorreia: gestante

coloração de Gram inicial não sugestiva de gonorreia: não gestante

coloração de Gram inicial não sugestiva de gonorreia: gestante

ONGOING

uretrite recorrente ou resistente

Contributors

Authors

Sheldon Morris, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Division of Infectious Diseases

Department of Medicine

UCSD Antiviral Research Center

Division of Family Medicine

Department of Family and Preventive Medicine

UCSD La Jolla Family and Sports Medicine

San Diego

CA

Disclosures

SM has received funding from NIH, CHRP, CIRM, NASA, and Visby Medical. SM owns stock in Bristol Myers Squib and is the founder of Aspera Biomedicines. SM is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Acknowledgements

Dr Sheldon Morris would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Christina Bailey, a previous contributor to this topic.

Disclosures

CB declares that she has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Vani Dandolu, MD, MPH

Associate Professor

Ob/Gyn and Urology

Director

Division of Urogynecology

Associate Residency Program Director

Temple University Hospital

Philadelphia

PA

Disclosures

VD declares that he has no competing interests.

Khalil Ghanem, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Associate Fellowship Program Director

Division of Infectious Diseases

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore

MD

Disclosures

KG declares that he has no competing interests.

Christopher Fairley, PhD

Professor of Sexual Health

University of Melbourne

Director

Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

Carlton

Victoria

Australia

Disclosures

CF is an author of a number of references cited in this topic. CF has received programme grants of 6 figures US$.

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References

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Key articles

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sexually transmitted infections treatment guidelines, 2021. Jul 2021 [internet publication].Full text

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National overview of STIs in 2023. Nov 2024 [internet publication].Full text

European Association of Urology. Guidelines on urological infections. 2023 [internet publication].Full text

Horner PJ, Blee K, Falk L, et al; International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections. 2016 European guideline on the management of non-gonococcal urethritis. Int J STD AIDS. 2016 Oct;27(11):928-37.Full text

British Association for Sexual Health and HIV. Urethritis and cervicitis. May 2023 [internet publication].Full text

Reference articles

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