Clinical Case Database / Category: Case Based Discussion

Prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome

Publication details

Mr Ben R. Grey MB.ChB. MRCS(Eng). MD, Mr Andrew, M Sinclair
Foundation Years Journal, volume 5, issue 3, p.65 (123Doc Education, London, April 2011)

Abstract

This discussion is based on a 39 year old gentleman presenting with prostatitis and discusses the assessment, differential diagnosis and treatment of the condition.

Access the Clinical Cases Database

A subscription is required to read the full article. Please subscribe using one of the options below.

Authors

Mr Ben R. Grey MB.ChB. MRCS(Eng). MD

ST5 in Urology, North West Deanery and Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Mr Andrew, M Sinclair

Consultant Urological Surgeon, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.

References

1. Weidner W, Schiefer HG, Krauss H, Jantos C, Friedrich HJ and Altmannsberger M. Chronic prostatitis: a thorough search for etiologically involved microorganisms in 1,461 patients. Infection 1991:19 Suppl,3:S119–25.
2. Schneider H, Ludwig M, Hossain HM, Diemer T and Weidner W. The 2001 Giessen Cohort Study on patients with prostatitis syndrome – an evaluation of inflammatory status and search for microorganisms 10 years after a first analysis. Andrologia 2003:Oct;35(5):258–62.
3. Fall M, Baranowski AP, Elneil S, Engeler D, Hughes J, Messelink EJ, Oberpenning F and Williams AC. EAU Guidelines on Chronic Pelvic Pain. European Urology 2010;57;35–48.
4. Reynard J, Brewster S and Biers S. Oxford Handbook of Urology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006.
5. Zermann DH, Ishigooka M, Doggweiler R and Schmidt RA. Neurourological insights into the etiology of genitourinary pain in man. J Urol 1999:Mar;161(3):903–8.
6. Alexander RB and Trissel D. Chronic prostatitis: results of an Internet survey. Urology 1996:Oct;48(4):568–74.
7. Meares EM and Stamey TA. Bacteriologic localization patterns in bacterial prostatitis and urethritis. Invest Urol 1968:Mar;5(5):492–518.
8. Krieger JN, Nyberg L Jr and Nickel JC. NIH consensus definition and classification of prostatitis. JAMA 1999:Jul;282(3):236–7.
9. Schaeffer AJ, Weidner W, Barbalias GA, Botto H, Bjerklund Johansen TE, Hochreiter WW, Krieger JN, Lobel B, Naber KG, Nickel JC, Potts JM, Tenke P and Hart C. Summary consensus statement: diagnosis and management of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Eur Urol 2003:Aug;43(Suppl 2):1–4.
10. Schaeffer AJ. Prostatitis: US perspective. Int J Antimicrob Agents 1999May;11(3–4): 205–11.
11. Barbalias GA, Nikiforidis G and Liatsikos EN. α-blockers for the treatment of chronic prostatitis in combination with antibiotics. J Urol 1998 Mar;159(3):883–7.

Disclaimers

Conflict Of Interest

The Journal requires that authors disclose any potential conflict of interest that they may have. This is clearly stated in the Journal’s published “Guidelines for Authors”. The Journal follows the Guidelines against Conflict of Interest published in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/urm_full.pdf).

Financial Statement

The authors of this article have not been paid. The Journal is financed by subscriptions and advertising. The Journal does not receive money from any other sources. The decision to accept or refuse this article for publication was free from financial considerations and was solely the responsibility of the Editorial Panel and Editor-in-Chief.

Patient Consent statement

All pictures and investigations shown in this article are shown with the patients’ consent. We require Authors to maintain patients’ anonymity and to obtain consent to report investigations and pictures involving human subjects when anonymity may be compromised. The Journal follows the Guidelines of the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts (http://www.icmje.org/urm_full.pdf). The Journal requires in its Guidelines for Authors a statement from Authors that “the subject gave informed consent”.

Animal & Human Rights

When reporting experiments on human subjects, the Journal requires authors to indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the HelsinkiDeclaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.

About the Clinical Cases Database

T​he Foundation Years Clinical Cases Database is​ a selection of 600 peer-reviewed clinical cases in the field of patient safety and clinical practice, specifically focused on the clinical information needs of junior doctors, based around the Foundation Year Curriculum programme (MMC). The cases have been chosen to align with the Foundation Year Curriculum.

The database is fully searchable, or can be browsed by medical specialty. Abstracts can be read free of charge, however a subscription is required in order to read the complete cases.