PURPOSE While hematospermia is mainly caused by genitourinary inflammatory disorders, very few studies have been published on prostatitis-associated hematospermia (PAH) diagnosed using robust prostatitis evaluation methods. Therefore, we have evaluated the incidence of PAH by using systematic methods for evaluating prostatitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated 37 hematospermia patients from...

Transrectal longitudinal ultrasonography was performed in 34 patients with chronic non-bacterial prostatitis. Prostatic stones and cystic lesions were associated with chronic non-bacterial prostatitis in 67.6% and 11.8%, respectively. The annual relapse rates of clinical symptoms were related to the presence of prostatic stones and cystic lesions. Transrectal ultrasonography plays a very import...

Members of the Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network (CPCRN) met in a 1-day symposium to review recent findings and to debate unanswered issues in the diagnosis and management of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS). The meeting was focused on producing an overview summary statement that would, as nearly as possible, represent the consensus views of the attend...

The review article, based on the results of modern clinical and experimental studies, discusses general issues pathophysiology oxidative stress as a universal pathogenetic factor human diseases particular pathophysiological aspects example chronic bacterial prostatitis. Separately, most studied mechanisms in pathogenesis infectious inflammatory process associated with prostatitis are highlighte...

Prostatitis ranges from a straightforward clinical entity in its acute form to a complex, debilitating condition when chronic. It is often a source of frustration for the treating physician and patient. There are four classifications of prostatitis: acute bacterial, chronic bacterial, chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, and asymptomatic. Diagnosis of acute and chronic bacterial pr...

PURPOSE Evidence shows that adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is involved in the transmission of multiple chronic pain via P2X7 receptor. This study was to investigate the P2X7 and microglial cells in the chronic prostatitis pain. MATERIALS AND METHODS Rats were divided into control group and chronic prostatitis group (n = 24 per group). A chronic prostatitis animal model was established by inject...

Objective: To study the therapeutic effect of Lingze tablets combined with traditional Chinese medicine herbalacupoint plasters on chronic prostatitis. Methods: A total 64 patients prostatitis who were admitted to Andrology Clinic Shuyang County Hospital Traditional Medicine from March 2021 2023 randomly divided into a treatment group and control group, 32 cases in each group. The took orally, ...

Chronic prostatitis (CP) refers to "inflammation" of the prostate and is thought to be related to either an acute or chronic infection of the prostate gland. It is important to distinguish chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) from other forms of infections of the prostate gland which include chronic bacterial prostatitis and acute bacterial prostatitis [1]. The aetiology, p...

The clinical syndrome of chronic prostatitis ranges from well-defined chronic bacterial infections to poorly defined chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS), previously referred to as "prostatodynia" or "abacterial prostatitis." Faced with the obscure nature of the disease, its protracted course, and the poor response to oral medication, urologists have considered alternative routes of drug adminis...

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 Complex affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran from 2014 to 2015, ...