When most men think about their prostate, it's to worry about whether they have prostate cancer or not. But another condition is far more common and plenty painful. Prostatitis involves inflammation ...

The term ‘prostatitis’ is used to describe several conditions, including well-defined acute and chronic bacterial infections, poorly defined chronic pelvic pain syndrome and asymptomatic inflammation ...

PARIS — To date, studies of antibiotic course length for treating urinary tract infections in men have been patchy and retrospective. Through recent randomized trials, guidelines can now be based on ...

NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Alfuzosin, a drug commonly prescribed for men with chronic prostatitis, a painful disorder of the prostate and surrounding pelvic ...

Q: Recently, a 47-year-old asymptomatic patient had a random prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level of 5.32 ng/mL. A repeat assay the following day was 6.10. All previous PSAs over a seven-year period ...

I am a 60-year-old man and suffer from chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. I have had bouts of prostatitis since childhood, but the last few years, it has been almost constant. My ...

Escherichia coli is the most common cause of bacterial prostatitis. Etiology and treatment are clearly defined for infectious prostatic syndromes, but not for chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Prostatitis ...

Prostate involvement was first reported in IgG4-RD approximately 2 decades ago and comprises only 9.6% of cases. A male patient in his 7os presented with isolated prostatitis associated with ...

DEAR DR ROACH: I am a 60-year-old man and suffer from chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. I have had bouts of prostatitis since childhood, but the last few years, it has been almost ...