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Gonorrhea is a more localized infection; it mostly affects the genitals; in men the penis, urethra, prostate, rectum, throat, and pharynx. It can also have an effect upon the whole body.

Gonorrhea Complications: petechial skin infection (cellulitis); fevers; general pelvic inflammation, possibly developing into pelvic inflammation disease; painful sex; risk of other types infections; infertility; increased susceptibility to HIV; adult gonococcal keratoconjunctivitis; eye infections, gonorrheal conjunctivitis, corneal abscess, and blindness; chronic sore throat, possibly leading to cancer; lymphadenitis; chronic joint pain; general joint infection or prosthetic joint infection; gonococcal infectious Arthritis (a septic form of arthritis) with skin lesions; gonorrheal osteomyelitis; meningitis; endocarditis; mycotic ascending aortic aneurysm; abdominal aortic aneurysm; scalp infections; adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS); blood infection (sepsis), which can lead to septic shock; kidney failure; urethral scarring; cartilage swelling of the dorsum of the penis; prostatic neoplasms; prostatic cancer; tenesmus; serious rectal bleeding; orchiepidydimitis; epididymitis; gonococcal tenosynovitis; and finally even the possibility of death.
In men, complications can affect the prostate, testicles, and surrounding glands. Inflammation, tissue death and pus formation (abscesses), and scarring can occur and result in sterility

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