Better known in the medical field with the term prostatitis, inflammation of the prostate can depend on infectious (specifically bacterial) or non-infectious causes.
The symptom picture of prostate inflammation is typical and generally consists of: pain in the pelvic area, pain in the scrotum, pain in the lower back, urinary disorders (dysuria, stranguria, urgent need to urinate, etc.), painful ejaculation, defecation painful etc.
For an accurate diagnosis of inflammation of the prostate, it is often necessary to subject the patient to various examinations and clinical investigations; the purpose of a very complex diagnostic process is, mainly, to understand the causes of the inflammatory state.
Treatment varies according to the triggering factor: inflammations of the prostate with infectious origins require antibiotic therapy, while inflammations of the prostate with non-infectious origins require other forms of treatment, not always specific and with mixed results.
To define this classification was a "US health agency, known as the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (or NIDDK), exactly in 1999; in reality, NIDDK reworked a classification of prostatitis dating back to 1968, which called prostatodynia l "chronic non-bacterial prostatic inflammation and excluded asymptomatic inflammation of the prostate from the classification (because it was unaware of its existence).
Current classification of the various types of inflammation of the prostate
Acute prostatic inflammation of bacterial origin.
Chronic prostatic inflammation of bacterial origin.
Chronic non-bacterial prostatic inflammation (these prostatitis also fall under the term chronic pelvic pain syndrome).
- Subtype IIIA: chronic inflammatory pelvic pain syndrome.
- Subtype IIIB: chronic non-inflammatory pelvic pain syndrome.
Asymptomatic inflammation of the prostate.
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