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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Nate Michalak, B.A.
Symptoms
Primary LGV
Secondary LGV
- Painful inguinal and/or femoral lymphadenopathy, usually unilateral[2]
- Iliac and/or perirectal lymphadenopathy in patients with rectal exposure
- Hemorrhagic proctocolitis
- Lower abdominal or low-back pain[3]
Tertiary LGV
- Lymphatic and rectal fibrosis[4]
- Lymphorroids (hemorrhoid-like swellings of lymphatics)
- Chronic edema
- Genital elephantiasis[1]
- Esthiomene (chronic ulcerative disease of vulva)
- Frozen pelvis syndrome[5]
- Tenesmus
- Bloody purulent rectal discharge
- Rectal pain
- Hyperplasia of intestinal and perirectal lymphatic tissue[2]
Systemic Symptoms
- Fever
- Chills
- Malaise
- Myalgia
- Arthralgia
- Arthritis
- Hepatitis or perihepatitis
- Pneumonitis
- Cardiac involvment (rare)
- Aseptic meningitis (rare)
- Ocular inflammatory disease (rare)[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mabey, D (2002). "Lymphogranuloma venereum". Sexually Transmitted Infections. 78 (2): 90–92. doi:10.1136/sti.78.2.90. ISSN 1368-4973.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ceovic R, Gulin SJ (2015). "Lymphogranuloma venereum: diagnostic and treatment challenges". Infect Drug Resist. 8: 39–47. doi:10.2147/IDR.S57540. PMC 4381887. PMID 25870512.
- ↑ de Vries HJ, Zingoni A, White JA, Ross JD, Kreuter A (2013). "2013 European Guideline on the management of proctitis, proctocolitis and enteritis caused by sexually transmissible pathogens". Int J STD AIDS. 25 (7): 465–474. doi:10.1177/0956462413516100. PMID 24352129.
- ↑ Lynch CM, Felder TL, Schwandt RA, Shashy RG (1999). "Lymphogranuloma venereum presenting as a rectovaginal fistula". Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol. 7 (4): 199–201. doi:10.1155/S1064744999000344. PMC 1784745. PMID 10449269.
- ↑ Van der Bij AK, Spaargaren J, Morré SA, Fennema HS, Mindel A, Coutinho RA; et al. (2006). "Diagnostic and clinical implications of anorectal lymphogranuloma venereum in men who have sex with men: a retrospective case-control study". Clin Infect Dis. 42 (2): 186–94. doi:10.1086/498904. PMID 16355328.