hominis in only 14 (6.3%) and Mycoplasma genitalium in 6 (2.7%) of 139 patients diagnosed with
chronic prostatitis, these findings were supported by our own PCR results.
To our knowledge, a total of four publications (3 papers and one poster) have reported clinical data of oral fosfomycin therapy in the treatment of acute and
chronic prostatitis (Table 3) [7, 22, 24, 25].
[A Japanese version of the National Institutes of Health
Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI, Okayama version) and the clinical evaluation of cernitin pollen extract for chronic non-bacterial prostatitis].
Nickel, "Textbook of Prostatitis," in National Institutes of Health Classification of
Chronic Prostatitis, J.
that included 1,442 males with
chronic prostatitis revealed that Chlamydia trachomatis, Trichomonas vaginalis, and Ureaplasma urealyticum were the causative pathogens in half of the patients (15).
Masonano, "
Chronic prostatitis and infections of prostate gland," American Journal of Cancer, vol.
Lymphoid follicles may not be readily appreciated and can be misdiagnosed as
chronic prostatitis. The patient underwent TURP 10 years prior to a final pathologic diagnosis of BPH.
The false positive rate for PSA testing is high, for example, in men with
chronic prostatitis and benign prostatic hypertrophy.
Schultheiss (19) reports in individuals with
chronic prostatitis altered quality of life and wellbeing associated to a disorder of sexuality.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of the orexin receptor in different prostate pathologies, including prostate adenocarcinoma, benign prostate hyperplasia and
chronic prostatitis.