Prostatitis: Difference between revisions

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NIH Class	Syndrome	Notes
I	Acute bacterial prostatitis	Symptoms of UTI with bacteriuria
II	Chronic bacterial prostatitis	Recurrent episodes of UTI with same organism
III	Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome	90% of cases; symptoms primarily of pain with the exclusion of other causes
IIIA	Inflammatory	Leukocytes present in prostatic secretions or semen
IIIB	Non-inflammatory	Leukocytes not present
IV	Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis	Asymptomatic and discovered incidentally on biopsy or other investigation

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-See also:
+!NIH Class
+!Syndrome
+!Notes
+|-
+|I
+|[[Acute bacterial prostatitis]]
+|Symptoms of UTI with bacteriuria
+|-
+|II
+|[[Chronic bacterial prostatitis]]
+|Recurrent episodes of UTI with same organism
+|-
+|III
+|[[Chronic prostatitis]]/[[chronic pelvic pain syndrome]]
+|90% of cases; symptoms primarily of pain with the exclusion of other causes
+|-
+|IIIA
+|Inflammatory
+|Leukocytes present in prostatic secretions or semen
+|-
+|IIIB
+|Non-inflammatory
+|Leukocytes not present
+|-
+|IV
+|[[Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis]]
+|Asymptomatic and discovered incidentally on biopsy or other investigation
+|}
+== Further Reading ==
-* [[Acute bacterial prostatitis]]
-* [[Chronic bacterial prostatitis]]
+* NIH Consensus Definition and Classification of Prostatitis. ''JAMA''. 1999;282(3):236-237. doi: [https://doi.org/10.1001/pubs/JAMA-ISSN-0098-7484-282-3-jac90006 10.1001/pubs/JAMA-ISSN-0098-7484-282-3-jac90006]
 [[Category:Genitourinary infections]]