Abstract:
Summary
To study the efficacy of Sumamed in patients presenting with chronic urethroprostatitis due to
sexually transmitted infections. 78 patients with chronic urethroprostatitis were observed out of which
48 had infection with C. trachomatis and 19 had U. urealyticum while 11 patients had combined
infections. Sumamed as single drug therapy was administered to 31 patients and as a combined
therapy with Ofloxacin in 47 patients. Sumamed was found to be effective in 89,9% patients infected
C. trachomatis and in 83,4% patients with U. urealyticum. The efficacy of Sumamed increased markedly on combined therapy with ofloxacin - showing 100% effect in those with U. urealyticum
infections and 93,2% patients with C. Trachomatis. Clinical symtems were attenuated in all patients with
effective treatment but only 47,3%patients treated with only Sumamed and 73,6 % patients treated
with combined therapy were assymptomatic after complete treatment. While the normalization of
expressed prostatic scretions were fou nd in 35.4% and in 60.8% patients respectively.
Conclusion: Sumamed is quite effective in treatment of Sexually transmitted infections and the
efficacy of the treatment increases on combined therapy with Ofloxacin .The pretreatment with
usually not recommended antibiotics for sexually transmitted infection reduces the efficacy.
