Outlook

Treated with antibiotics, gonorrheal infections can be cured 95-99% of the time.

• Complications if not treated include these:
  
  
  • Pelvic inflammatory disease (20-40% of women)
    
    
  • Chronic pelvic pain and sterility from tubal adhesions in which fibrous tissue in the fallopian tubes abnormally sticks together (women)
    
    
  • Arthritis
    
    
  • Meningitis (inflammation of the brain) or endocarditis (infection of the heart) (1%)
    
    
  • Chlamydia, another sexually transmitted disease (60%)