BACKGROUND Prevalence of fluoroquinolone (FQ)-resistant Escherichia coli has been recently increasing worldwide. We analyzed the incidence and characteristics of acute bacterial prostatitis after transrectal ultrasound-guided needle prostate biopsy (TRUSP-Bx) with prophylactic tazobactam/piperacillin (TAZ/PIPC) treatment as an alternative regimen. METHODS A total of 391 patients who underwent...

Prostatitis, BPH, and P.Ca are the most frequent pathologies of the prostate gland that are responsible for morbidity in men. Raised levels of PSA are seen in different pathological conditions involving the prostate. PAP levels are altered in inflammatory or infectious or abnormal growth of the prostate tissue. Serum calcium and phosphorus levels were also found to be altered in prostate cancer...

PURPOSE To determine whether antibiotics are beneficial in the management of category III prostatitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS The PubMed, Medline and Embase databases were searched for all published documents from January 1, 1965 to September 1, 2012 without language restriction. The randomized controlled trials that mentioned comparable groups of antibiotics treatment versus placebo or other ...

A total of 1442 patients with symptoms of chronic prostatitis were examined over a 4-year period at the Outpatient Department for Urogenital Infections, University Hospital for Infectious Diseases "Dr. Fran Mihaljevic", Zagreb, Croatia. An infectious aetiology was determined in 1070 (74.2%) patients. In 561 of 1070 (52.4%) patients the inflammatory finding (>10 WBC/hpf) was found in expressed p...

The aim of this study was to assess the usefulness of PCR for diagnosis of Trichomonas vaginalis infection among male patients with chronic recurrent prostatitis and urethritis. Between June 2001 and December 2003, a total of 33 patients visited the Department of Urology, Hanyang University Guri Hospital and were examined for T. vaginalis infection by PCR and culture in TYM medium. For the PCR,...

INTRODUCTION Chronic prostatitis can cause pain and urinary symptoms, and usually occurs without positive bacterial cultures from prostatic secretions (known as chronic abacterial prostatitis or chronic pelvic pain syndrome, CP/CPPS). Bacterial infection can result from urinary tract instrumentation, but the cause and natural history of CP/CPPS are unknown. METHODS AND OUTCOMES We conducted a...

Nowadays, the use of medicinal plants, for treatment several pathologies, continues to gain grounds throughout world. Leptadeniahastata, like other isused as therapeutic agent pathological conditions including diabetes mellitus, diarrhoea, and prostatitis, among other, however, limited data on its toxicity are available.

The diagnostic and prognostic values of blood cultures (BC) for 347 acute prostatitis inpatients were evaluated. BC were positive for 21% of patients and contributed to the microbiological diagnosis for 5%. Fever duration, length of hospitalization, use of an antibiotic combination, duration of antibiotic use, and urine bacterial titers increased when BC were positive.

Хронический простатит (ХП) – заболевание, характеризующееся клиническими и/или лабораторными симптомами воспаления/инфекционного процесса в предстательной железе, относится к числу распространенных урологических заболеваний мужчин репродуктивного возраста. От 8 до 35% мужчин в возрасте от 20 до 40 лет страдают ХП [1]. В 1995 г. в ходе рабочего совещания по простатиту Национальным Институтом Здо...

In chronic prostatitis complaints of patients are diverse. Thus, often the disease is erroneously diagnosed as chronic cystitis, prostatomegaly, neurogenic cystitis, etc. Leader describes that chronic prostatitis is a stagnant uninfectious lesion resulting from an inflammation in the past. However, in many cases organisms are not detectable or, if detected, cannot be precisely related to the di...