A large number of men presenting with symptoms of chronic prostatitis do not have demonstrable signs of infection. Multiple factors apart from infections have been implicated as aetiologies, including psychosomatic, neuromuscular, urodynamic or immune related. Treatment is often complex with variable response to multiple agents.
Ascending infections of the urethral tract often affect the male accessory sex organs including prostate. Prostatitis or inflammation and swelling of the prostate gland has been categorised based on the duration of symptoms and presence or absence of evidence for infection as Category I: Acute Bacterial Prostatitis Category II: Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis Category III: Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (Chronic non-bacterial prostatitis) Category IV: Asymptomatic Prostatitis A majority of men diagnosed with Category III Chronic…
