Prostatitis and Its Management

1. Introduction and Aim of the Book
Tommaso Cai, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen

2. Epidemiology and Microbiological Considerations: What’s New?
Sandra Mazzoli, Tommaso Cai, Marco Puglisi, Riccardo Bartoletti

3. The Diagnostic Approach to Patients with Prostatitis-Like Symptoms: What Do We Have to Do?
Andrea Benelli, Florian M. E. Wagenlehner

4. Classification of Prostatitis: What Is the Clinical Usefulness?
Riccardo Bartoletti, Tommaso Cai

5. Imaging Studies: What Is Their Role?
N. Pavan, S. Rai, F. Vedovo, M. Bertolotto, M. Iannelli, C. Trombetta, G. Liguori

6. Treatment of Bacterial Prostatitis: Clinico-Pharmacological Considerations
Gianpaolo Perletti, Vittorio Magri

7. Treatment of Nonbacterial Prostatitis: What’s New?
Paolo Verze, Luca Venturino

8. The Role of Phytotherapy in the Management of Prostatitis Patients
Zafer Tandogdu, Mete Cek

9. Management of Infective Complications Following Prostate Biopsy
Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen, Catherine E. P. Pereira, Vladimir Mouraviev

10. The Contribution of Prostate Infection and Inflammation to BPH and Cancer
Francesca Pisano

11. The Role of STD Pathogens in Bacterial Prostatitis
Tommaso Cai, Daniele Tiscione

12. Andrologic Sequelae in Prostatitis Patients
Jamil Syed, Vladimir Mouraviev

13. The Role of Chronic Prostatitis in Male Infertility: Is There a Relationship?
Vitaly Smelov

14. Elevated PSA as Differential Diagnostic Error-Source in Prostate Cancer with Consequences in Medical Law
Karl-Horst Bichler, Kurt G. Naber

15. The Prostatitis Patient: “A Clinical Dialogue”
Tommaso Cai, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen

Avainsanat: Medicine & Public Health, Urology, Infectious Diseases