Candidosis of the prostate: a rare form of endomycosis

Abstract

Summary. The third case of a culturally and histologically proven candidosis of the prostate in the world literature available to us is reported. Autopsy of a 59‐year‐old man with metastasizing bronchial carcinoma as predisposing primary disease revealed a local candidosis of the prostate in the left lobe of the prostate, without evidence of a Candida sepsis. Parallel and different aspects in comparison with the other two cases are described. Zusammenfassung. Der dritte Fall in der Weltliteratur einer kulturell und histologisch gesi‐cherten Prostata‐Candidose wird beschrieben. Die Obduktion eines 59‐jährigen Mannes mit metastasierendem Bronchialcarcinom als prädis‐ponierende Grunderkrankung ergab eine lokale Prostata‐Candidose im linken Prostatalappen, ohne Hinweise für eine Candida‐Sepsis. Parallelen und Unterschiede zu den zwei weiteren Kasuisti‐ken werden dargestellt.

Guideline vulvovaginal candidosis (2010) of the german society for gynecology and obstetrics, the working group for infections and infectimmunology in gynecology and obstetrics, the german society of dermatology, the board of german dermatologists and the german speaking mycological society

“…The partner’s sperm can also be colonized by the identical Candida strain found in the vagina (Mendling et al 1998), although the partner is free of symptoms. Candida prostatits is a very rare event seen only in immunosuppressed men (Golz and Mendling 1991, Sobel, Fischer and Kauffman 2010). Nonetheless, the role of the partner’s genital colonization or the orointestinal colonization of both partners as source of recurrence of recurrent Candida vaginitis is not clear (Sobel 2007).…”

Gut microbiome and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome

“…Many organisms have been implicated has possible sources of undocumented infection, including Mycoplasma hominis, Trichomonas vaginalis, Candida species, Ureaplasma urealyticum, Chlamydia trachomatis, herpes simplex virus, and even parasites (23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29). Such an infection may actually be an inciting incident rather than an ongoing cause that leads to development of the clinical syndrome.…”

Epidemiology and evaluation of chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men

“…However, there have been many proposed (but unsubstantiated) causes for CPPS, including infections with bacteria, viruses and yeast [11][12][13][14]. Furthermore, a casecontrolled study found no difference in the rate of positive cultures localised to expressed prostatic secretion between men with CPPS and asymptomatic men [15].…”