Chronic urethritis is an advanced stage of urethritis that may arise from a failure to detect and treat it promptly. Consequently, managing chronic urethritis is often more challenging and requires greater perseverance compared to early-stage urethritis.

One of the causes of urethritis is gonorrhea. Gonorrhea in general and gonorrhea urethritis in particular is a urinary tract infection caused by a bacteria called gonorrhea and has the ability to be sexually transmitted.