title: Value of the prostatic LDH levels in the diagnosis of bacterial prostatitis.
abstract: Fifty-four patients aged between 21 and 50 years with typical symptoms of chronic prostatitis and 10 healthy men serving as control group had prostatic-fluid cultures according to the Meares-Stamey technique. Prostatic-fluid LDH levels were also estimated by agar gel electrophoresis. Eight patients were found to have bacterial prostatitis and significantly elevated LDH5/LDH1 isoenzymes ratio, 24 patients fulfilled the criteria for nonbacterial prostatitis and 22 patients were classified as suffering from prostatodynia. The LDH5/LDH1 isoenzymes ratio was found to decrease gradually as the inflammatory elements of the prostatic fluid reduced with the lowest value detected in the control group.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Becopoulos
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stavropoulos
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kastriotis
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sinaniotis
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gourgiotis
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Syriopoulou
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000032:analysis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011467:Prostate / Q000201:enzymology*; D011472:Prostatitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase