Antibiotics for nonbacterial prostatitis

Chronic abacterial prostatitis (CAP) involves inflammation of the prostate gland and commonly affects men of all ages. It can cause problems urinating, including discomfort and pain, increased frequency and urge, or problems emptying the bladder. In most cases, the cause is unknown. Treatments for CAP include heat treatments (using microwaves) and several ...

Allopurinol is a drug used to primarily to treat conditions arising from excess uric acid, such as gout. It is unclear that allopurinol is effective in treating chronic prostatitis. Only one small randomized trial of 54 men was included in this review. Based on the results of this trial, which used non-valid ways to measure symptom improvements, allopurinol ...

Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and transrectal prostate biopsy is the procedure to obtain tissue for the histological diagnosis of carcinoma of the prostate. Despite the fact that infective complications after transrectal prostate biopsy are well known, there is uncertainty about the necessity and effectiveness of ...

Men and women who have initially been treated with surgical removal the bladder lining containing cancer (transurethral resection of the bladder) for Ta (cancer that is contained within the tissue lining of the bladder) and T1 (more invasive but not into the musculature) bladder cancer were subsequently treated with one of two additional treatments ...