Prostatitis and Its Management: Concepts and Recommendations for Clinical Practice

✍ Scribed by Tommaso Cai, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 150
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the current and emerging management of prostatitis, from diagnosis to therapy. It addresses all clinical aspects of the prostatitis syndrome and equips the reader with all the information needed to offer a tailored therapy. Furthermore, clinical implications of the disease are analyzed and discussed, with particular attention to andrological complications (infertility) and the possible link between prostatitis and prostate cancer. Special consideration is also given to contemporary aspects of prostatitis management relating to antibiotic stewardship and elevated PSA, bearing in mind that thoughtless treatment of prostatitis represents malpractice and sometimes even a forensic issue. The final chapter comprising questions and answers will be valuable for quick consultation in everyday clinical practice. This book will be a truly practical guide for physicians involved in the diagnostic work-up and treatment of patients suspected of having prostatitis and will also serve as a ready source of information for all physicians who occasionally see prostatitis patients.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction and Aim of the Book....Pages 1-2
Epidemiology and Microbiological Considerations: What’s New?....Pages 3-10
The Diagnostic Approach to Patients with Prostatitis-Like Symptoms: What Do We Have to Do?....Pages 11-16
Classification of Prostatitis: What Is the Clinical Usefulness?....Pages 17-26
Imaging Studies: What Is Their Role?....Pages 27-32
Treatment of Bacterial Prostatitis: Clinico-Pharmacological Considerations....Pages 33-48
Treatment of Nonbacterial Prostatitis: What’s New?....Pages 49-59
The Role of Phytotherapy in the Management of Prostatitis Patients....Pages 61-65
Management of Infective Complications Following Prostate Biopsy....Pages 67-86
The Contribution of Prostate Infection and Inflammation to BPH and Cancer....Pages 87-94
The Role of STD Pathogens in Bacterial Prostatitis....Pages 95-107
Andrologic Sequelae in Prostatitis Patients....Pages 109-115
The Role of Chronic Prostatitis in Male Infertility: Is There a Relationship?....Pages 117-130
Elevated PSA as Differential Diagnostic Error-Source in Prostate Cancer with Consequences in Medical Law....Pages 131-140
The Prostatitis Patient: “A Clinical Dialogue”....Pages 141-145

✦ Subjects

Urology;Infectious Diseases