Role Of Urate Levels Of Expressed Prostatic Secretion In Nonbacterial Prostatitis (Category IIIB)--Etiology, Mechanism And Management

Chronic prostatits(CP) is a debilitating disease and affects almost 10% of the adult male population. The quality of life for a patient with chronic prostatitis is similar to that experienced by patients with acute myocardial infarction, unstable angina, or active Crohn disease. The International Prostatitis Collaborative Network has devised and validated a clinically useful classification of prostatitis: I,Acute bacterial prostatitis ; II,Chronic bacterial prostatitis ; IIIA,Inflammatory chronic pelvic pain syndrome;IIIB,Noninflammatory chronic pelvic pain syndromes;IV,Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis.Prostatitis category I and II is caused by bacterial infection, and both response to antibiotic therapy effectively. It has been though that 90% to 95% of symptomatic prostatits is nonbacterial origin. Chronic nonbacterial prostatitis has been divided into category IIIA and IIIB based only on the WBC counts of EPS. It is a common problem in young men, which is easily recurrent and each episode lasts for several months. The etiology of IIIA and IIIB is not fully understood and several causative...