Chronic pain in patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS), NIH category III is difficult to treat without understanding its cause. The main symptom of chronic prostatitis is pain. In this study, we would like to explain the origin of pain in men with CP/CPPS and its therapy. Forty-five patients with CP/CPPS have received thermobalancing therapy (TT) enabled by Dr ...

(1) No concise picture of the disease could be found, nor even any with which most clinicians would agree. For instance, in England and the Scandinavian countries, there has been described a severe variety of chronic prostatitis unlike anything encountered in the. United States (Giertz, 1955). (2) Little was known about its aetiology; bacteriological studies have been, at best, equivocal and be...

This study investigated the effects of long-term treatment with rifaximin and the probiotic VSL#3 on uro-genital and gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) plus diarrhoea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (D-IBS) compared with patients with D-IBS alone. Eighty-five patients with CP/CPPS (45 with subtype IIIa and 40 with IIIb) plu...

© Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Transl Androl Urol, 2016;5(S1) tau.amegroups.com of xanthogranulomatous prostatitis. Methods: The clinical data of a case of xanthogranulomatous prostatitis were analyzed retrospectively and discussed with relative literature review. Results: A 56-year-old man presented with a 1 month history of difficult urination, which was exacerbat...

Prostatitis is a common problem in elderly. Prostatitis is causd by implantation of gram negative organism by direct route or lymphohematogenous route, instrumentation, inoculation of BCG for bladder cancer & occasionally as a part of military tuberculosis involving genitourinary system. Prostatitis can lead to different clinical symptoms like fever, chill, UTI, low back pain, erectile dysfunct...

PURPOSE Myofascial pain is a possible etiology for category III chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, either secondary to infection/inflammation or as the primary cause. We documented tenderness on physical examination in a large multicenter cohort of patients with chronic pelvic pain syndrome and compared to controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were reviewed from the National Ins...

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate the therapeutic efficacy of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in the symptomatic management of chronic prostatitis pain/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Design: A pretest, posttest randomized double blind design was used in data collection. Participant: Twenty-four patients diagnosed with chronic prostatitiscategory IIIA and IIIB ...

© Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Transl Androl Urol, 2016;5(S1) tau.amegroups.com of xanthogranulomatous prostatitis. Methods: The clinical data of a case of xanthogranulomatous prostatitis were analyzed retrospectively and discussed with relative literature review. Results: A 56-year-old man presented with a 1 month history of difficult urination, which was exacerbat...

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 ...