Evaluation of the Prostatitis Patient

Nguyen, Carvell T.; Shoskes, Daniel A.

doi:10.1007/978-1-59745-472-8_1

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“…Prostatitis, an inflammatory or infectious disorder of the prostate, can be classified into acute, chronic bacterial, chronic nonbacterial, prostadynia, and asymptomatic forms [ 8 20 ]. In this study, we could not find any acute prostatitis patients.…”

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“…We evaluated prostatitis-associated symptoms by using a Korean version of the NIH-CPSI questionnaire, and prostate inflammation by using an EPS wet smear and culture. On the basis of these evaluations, eligible participants were classified into patients without any evidence of prostatitis (negative prostatitis), with chronic bacterial prostatitis (NIH-category II), with chronic nonbacterial prostatitis (NIH-category IIIA), with prostadynia (NIH-category IIIB), and with asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis [ 8 10 ]. In particular, we defined the group of negative prostatitis patients as hematospermia patients who did not have a specific prostatitis symptom according to the NIH-CPSI questionnaire or display any relevant signs in the EPS studies.…”

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“…Prostatitis, an inflammatory disorder of the prostate, has been considered an important disease causing bloody ejaculation [ 1 2 3 4 5 ]. It has been well known that the basic methods for evaluating prostatitis include the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) questionnaire, and the white blood cell (WBC) counts and bacterial culture of expressed prostatic secretion (EPS) [ 7 8 9 10 ]. Unfortunately, very few studies on the determination of prostatitis-related etiologies for the origin of hematospermia have been performed using robust prostatitis evaluation methods.…”

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Chronic Prostatitis: A Possible Cause of Hematospermia

Lee

2015

World J Mens Health

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PurposeWhile 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 MethodsWe evaluated 37 hematospermia patients from a single hospital over the last five years. We classified the patients into PAH versus hematospermia without any evidence of prostatitis (HWP) by using a NIH-Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index questionnaire and expressed prostatic secretion studies.ResultsThe mean age was 55.89±14.87 years, and the patients were grouped into two groups: one group had 12 HWP patients and the other 25 PAH patients. PAH patients were further sub-classified: chronic bacterial prostatitis (3 patients), chronic nonbacterial prostatitis (10 patients), prostadynia (7 patients), and asymptomatic prostatitis (5 patients). We found Enterococcus faecalis in the three chronic bacterial prostatitis patients. We could not find any statistically significant difference between the PAH and the HWP groups in terms of the age interval, serum prostate-specific antigen level, and prostate volume. Even though there was no statistically significant difference in the items about urination between the two groups, we found a statistically significant difference in the quality of life (QoL) impact for the patients in this study.ConclusionsTwo-thirds of the hematospermia patients were associated with some evidence of prostatitis. Further, the patients with PAH revealed poor QoL compared with the patients with HWP. Therefore, we must evaluate the presence of prostatitis in hematospermia patients and alleviate the prostatitis-associated symptoms to improve their QoL.

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Chronic Prostatitis: A Possible Cause of Hematospermia

Lee

2015

World J Mens Health

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“…Approximately one-third of all men during their lifetime will experience symptoms consistent with prostatitis [29]. The early classification of prostatitis described four syndromes for which pelvic pain in the male was the common factor [30].…”

Section: Prostatitismentioning

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“…Finally, patients included in the fourth NIH category of prostatitis are asymptomatic, but there is evidence of inflammation, infection or both in prostate-specific specimens after massage and/or in cytological or histological investigations of prostatic biopsy specimens which have been obtained on account of elevation of the serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA). [29,[33][34][35].…”

Section: Prostatitismentioning

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