[Infectious pathologies of the prostate].
Prostatitis represents an heterogenic disease: we describe acute bacterial prostatitis, chronic bacterial prostatitis, chronic abacterial prostatitis and prostatodynia. Acute bacterial prostatitis is treated easily as an acute infection since chronic prostatitis needs a long and difficult treatment. In both cases, fluoroquinolones are the antibiotics of choice. Prostatodynia is treated by alpha-blockers. Granulomatous prostatitis is evocated in terms of differential diagnosis.
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Service d'Urologie, Hôpital Erasme, U.L.B.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000317:Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D024841:Fluoroquinolones; D006099:Granuloma / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D011472:Prostatitis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*
D000317:Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists; D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D024841:Fluoroquinolones