Naslov
Etiology of chronic prostatitis syndrome in patients treated at the University Hospital for Infectious Diseases "Dr Fran Mihaljevic" from 2003 to 2005

Autori
Škerk, Višnja ; Čajić, Vjeran ; Markovinović, Leo ; Roglić, Srđan ; Zekan, Šime ; Škerk, Vedrana ; Radošević, Velena ; Tambić-Andrašević, Arjana

Izvornik
Collegium Antropologicum (0350-6134) 30 (2006), Suppl.2; 145-149

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Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
chronic prostatitis syndrome; etiology; Chlamydia trachomatis

Sažetak
A total of 835 patients with symptoms of chronic prostatitis syndrome and no evidence of structural or functional lower genitourinary tract abnormalities were examined in a three year period at the Outpatient Department for Urogenital Infections, University Hospital for Infectious Diseases >> Dr Fran Mihaljevic << Zagreb, Croatia. Disease etiology was determined in 482 (57.72%) patients. Chlamydia trachomatis was proved to be the causative pathogen in 161 patients, Trichomonas vaginalis in 85, Escherichia coli in 68, Enterococcus in 51, Proteus mirabilis in 20, Klebsiella pneumoniae in 9, Streptococcus agalactiae in 15, Ureaplasma urealyticum in 49 patients with chronic prostatitis. Other patients had mixed infection. In 257 (53.32%) of 482 patients, the inflammatory finding (> 10 WBCs/hpf) was found in EPS or VB3. Normal WBCs/hpf (< 10) was found in 103 (63.98%) of 161 patients with symptoms of chronic prostatitis in whom C. trachomatis was detected in EPS or VB3, in 50 (58.82%) of 85 patients in whom Trichomonas vaginalis was isolated, and in 23 (46.94%) of 49 patients in whom Ureaplasma urealyticum was isolated.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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