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- Title
Chronic prostatitis: current treatment options.
- Authors
Pirola, Giacomo Maria; Verdacchi, Tiziano; Rosadi, Stefano; Annino, Filippo; Angelis, Michele De
- Abstract
Male chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is represented by a heterogeneous group of symptoms that can cause an important impairment of daily quality of life for patients. Diagnosis of CP/CPPS is often not clear and treatment can be challenging, as it varies according to the different causative factors and derived symptoms. Differently from approaches used in the past, the diagnosis and subsequent treatment rely on separating this entity from chronic bacterial prostatitis and considering it as a multifactorial disease. Autoimmunity and inflammation, myofascial tenderness, neuroinflammation, and psychological causes have been clearly related to this disease, and therefore CPPS should not only be considered as related to benign prostatic enlargement. A multitude of different symptoms related to urinary, genital, rectal, and perineal areas can be attributed to this condition and therefore should be routinely investigated in patients, as well as possible differential diagnoses which can cause the same symptoms, such as pudendal nerve entrapment syndrome. The aim of this narrative review is to focus on CPPS after an infectious cause has been excluded.
- Subjects
PROSTATITIS; THERAPEUTICS; BENIGN prostatic hyperplasia; PUDENDAL nerve; PELVIC pain; CHRONIC pain
- Publication
Research & Reports in Urology, 2019, Vol 11, p165
- ISSN
2253-2447
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2147/RRU.S194679