Prostatitis: Etiopathology, Diagnosis and Therapy

ISBN-13: 9783642781834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 276 str.

Wolfgang Weidner; Paul O. Madsen; Hans G. Schiefer

Opis

All modern aspects of etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy of prostatitis are critically evaluated in this book. Of special interest to the readers will be the modern diagnostic management of chronic prostatitis and the debatable therapeutic approach to chronic nonbacterial prostatitis.

Spis treści

I Introduction.- Classification, Etiology, and Diagnosis of Prostatitis.- II Prostatitis: Basic Data.- Physiology and Pathophysiology of Prostate Infection.- Host-Parasite Interactions in Prostatitis.- The Anatomy of the Prostate: Relationship with Prostatic Infection.- Complaint Complexes and Psychosomatic Aspects.- Diagnostic Management in Chronic Prostatitis.- Ultrasonographic Features of Prostatitis.- Prostatitis and Male Infertility.- Basis for Antibacterial Treatment of Prostatitis: Experimental and Clinical Pharmacokinetic Studies and Models.- Experimental Prostatitis.- III Acute Bacterial Prostatitis.- Acute Prostatitis and Prostatic Abscess.- IV Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis.- Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Inflammatory Reactions in Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis.- The Treatment of Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis: Principles and Management.- The Role of Quinolones in the Treatment of Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis.- In Loco Antibiotics in Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis.- Radical Transurethral Prostatectomy for Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis.- Radical Prostatectomy for Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis.- Immunotherapy and Prostatitis.- V Nonbacterial Prostatitis.- The Diagnosis, Aetiology and Pathogenesis of Chronic Abacterial Prostatitis.- Prostatic Infection by Unconventional, Fastidious Pathogens.- Trichomonas vaginalis.- Therapy of Nonbacterial Prostatitis.- Microwave Hyperthermia for Chronic Prostatitis and Prostatodynia.