title: Ten years experience with chronic prostatitis in Africans.
abstract: This is a prospective study of seventy three patients with chronic prostatitis over a ten year period (1984-1994. The study was carried out at various hospitals in Lagos Nigeria and Nairobi Kenya. The mean age was 39.3 years. Chronic bacterial prostatitis was diagnosed in 15 patients (20.5%) of which 11 patients (73.3%) had Escherichia coli as the causative pathogen. Four of these patients (36.4%) were symptom and culture free after 12 weeks therapy with trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole. Four of the other seven patients not responding to trimethoprim (57.1%) became symptom and culture free after four weeks therapy with ciproflaxacin. Non bacterial prostatitis including prostatodynia was diagnosed in 58 patients (79.5%). Only 15 of these patients (25.8%) reported some subjective relief of symptoms on emperic therapy with doxycycline with complete relapse on discontinuation of therapy. Further therapy with non steroidal anti-inflammatory ibuprofen and anticholinergic oxybutinin chloride proved effective in alleviating symptoms in 40 patients (68.96%), but all relapsed on discontinuation of therapy emphasizing the ineffective and unsatisfactory nature of the present emperic treatment regimens as the cause of non bacterial prostatitis remains unknown.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Magoha
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D007630:Kenya; D008297:Male; D008333:Mandelic Acids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008875:Middle Aged; D009549:Nigeria; D010276:Parasympatholytics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011472:Prostatitis / Q000145:classification / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology*; D012008:Recurrence; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal; D008333:Mandelic Acids; D010276:Parasympatholytics; C005419:oxybutynin