Outlook

Treated with antibiotics, chlamydial infections can be cured 95% of the time.

• Complications if not treated:

• 10-40% of women will develop pelvic inflammatory disease;
  5% of women with pelvic inflammatory disease will develop a form of liver disease (perihepatitis).

• Women may develop chronic pelvic pain and become sterile due to blockage of the Fallopian tubes that allow the egg to be transported from the ovary to the women's womb.

• More common in men, some may develop sexually acquired reactive arthritis or Reiter syndrome.

• Men may experience painful swelling of the testicles.