Urolog. pro Praxi, 2006; 1: 24-27

PROSTATITIC SYNDROM

MUDr. Martina Poršová³, MUDr. Jaroslav Porš¹, MUDr. Ivan Kolombo FEBU², MUDr. Richard Pabišta³

¹ Urologická ambulance Městské nemocnice Turnov

² Centrum robotické chirurgie a urologie Nemocnice Na Homolce, Praha

³ Urologické oddělení, Klaudiánova nemocnice, Mladá Boleslav

Prostatitis is one of the most common inflammatory entities encountered in urologic practice (30). Patients with prostatitis constitute about 25 percent of men who annualy visit urologist because of the genitourinary tract complaints (25).

Diagnosis of prostatitis (prostatitic syndrom) is based on clinical symptoms, microscopic examination and culture of expressed prostatic secretion and samples of urine (28).

The causative pathogen is found in five to ten percent of cases (38). European Association of Urology recommends the classification of prostatitis suggested by NIDDK/NIH (National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases/National Institutes of Health), in which bacterial prostatitis (acute and chronic) is distinguished from chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) (40). The treatment of prostatitis is empirical in the most of the patiens (28).

Keywords: Key words: acute and chronic bacterial prostatitis, prostatodynia, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, asymptomatic prostatitis.

Published: January 1, 2006  Show citation