...Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen; Kurt Mueller; Timo Lehtonen Illness behavior and personality changes during a 2-year follow-up period were studied in 40 patients with chronic prostatitis. In the first study, the existence of psychic problems among the subjects was high. Sexual problems were striking...

...C. Servadio; Z. Braf; Y. Siegel; Z. Leib; R. Saranga; A. Lindner Local hyperthermia to the prostate has initially been found to be of considerable beneficial value in cancer of the gland and later also in benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) and in chronic prostatitis. The Prostathermer® has been...

...D. Di Trapani; C. Pavone; V. Serretta; N. Cavallo; G. Costa; M. Pavone-Macaluso Transrectal ultrasonography was performed in 121 patients with the chronic prostatitis syndrome(CPS), and in 20 patients with urological pathology not involving the prostate gland. The ultrasonographic aspects...

...Hans Johansson A case of chronic prostatitis where conventional chemotherapy and repeated transurethral resections failed to relieve pain is described. A cutaneous uretero-entero anastomosis was performed for troublesome pain and incontinence and only a permanent sympathetic block with phenol...

... immunophenotypic patterns in patients with noninflammatory chronic pelvic pain syndrome (Cat IIIB CPPS) for further description and as possible surrogate markers for diagnosis and treatment. Methods: Eighty–eight patients with a referral diagnosis of chronic prostatitis underwent fractionated urinary cultures...

...Ammar A. Ghobish Objectives: Prostatodynia (type III–B according to the classification of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) represents a major part of all chronic prostatitis syndromes. Uroflowmetry changes in these patients were rarely described...

...T.E. Bjerklund Johansen; R.N. Grüneberg; J. Guibert; A. Hofstetter; B. Lobel; K.G. Naber; J. Palou Redorta; P.J. van Cangh Practical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic prostatitis are presented. Chronic prostatitis is classified as chronic bacterial prostatitis (culture-positive...