This article reviews the National Institutes of Health (NIH) classification system for prostatitis and summarizes the baseline analysis of the Chronic Prostatitis Cohort Study, a longitudinal study, which has enrolled 488 patients diagnosed with category III prostatitis. The prevalence of category IIIA in this cohort was 54% to 90%, depending on the cut points used. In all, 8% (37 of 488) had >...

Background: Granulomatous prostatitis is an uncommon inflammatory process of the prostate, which in most cases, is nonspecific. Clinical presentation, treatment, and evolution are similar to those of benign prostatic hypertrophy, but this lesion is also a clinical mimicker of prostate. Fungal granulomatous prostatitis is rare and there are only a few reported cases. Clinical case: We report the...

Chronic prostatitis, which is one of the most common diseases with which the adult male is afflicted [1, 2], covers a wide range of symptoms originating in the prostate. Gartman [3] collected 178 of these symptoms related to the strategic position of the prostate to the urinary, genital and gastro-intestinal tract. A classification based on histological appearance by Swinney [14] divides the cl...

Background: The optimal treatment is not possible yet for chronic prostatitis due to the unknown etiology of the diseases. We aimed to investigate the association of Helicobacter pylori infection with chronic prostatitis. Methods: In this prospective case-control study that conducted in Imam Hospital...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare the diagnostic accuracy of prostate apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) versus normalized prostate ADC using the normal peripheral zone as the reference site for the differentiation of prostate cancer and prostatitis in the peripheral zone. Methods: Fifty-two patients, 32 with prostate cancer and 19 with prostatitis, were assessed with single-sh...

BACKGROUND Prostatitis is a common and refractory urological disease with complicated etiology. Ureaplasma urealyticum (UU) has a close relationship with human urinary tract infection that can induce nonbacterial prostatitis. Tripterygium wilfordii polyglycoside (TWP) is a non-steroidal immune inhibitor that causes significant immune suppression and anti-inflammatory effects. Its role in prosta...

Introduction Prostatitis affects a large number of men of all ages and ethnicities, making it a significant, but often overlooked global healthcare issue. In fact its impact may be huge, with one out of every two men estimated to suffer from prostatitis symptoms at some time in their life. This is reflected in statistics that show that in the United States alone approximately 2 million medical ...

You have accessJournal of UrologyInfections/Inflammation/Cystic Disease the Genitourinary Tract: Prostate & Genitalia (MP35)1 Sep 2021MP35-18 EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCKWAVE THERAPY IMPROVES CP/CPPS BY DOWN-REGULATING NLPR3 INFLAMMASOME IN A PROSTATITIS RAT MODEL Dongho Shin, Yong Hyun Park, Hyuk Jin Cho, Usyn Ha, Sunghoo Hong, Ji Youl Lee, Sae Woong Kim, Sang Hoon Byung Il Yoon, and Bae ShinDongho Sh...

Chronic prostatitis is relatively common, with a lifetime prevalence of 1.8% to 8.2%. Risk factors include conditions that facilitate introduction of bacteria into the urethra and prostate (which also predispose the patient to urinary tract infections) and conditions that can lead to chronic neuropathic pain. Chronic prostatitis must be differentiated from other causes of chronic pelvic pain, s...

BACKGROUND Although prostatitis syndrome (PS) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are common disorders, information on the prevalence of IBS in infertile patients with PS is relatively scanty. Therefore, this study was undertaken to estimate the frequency of PS and IBS and to evaluate the prevalence of the various diagnostic categories of prostatitis. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS This study ...