References to sources of information used in the production of Prostatitis: A guide to infection or inflammation of the prostate

What is prostatitis?

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What are the symptoms?

Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association of Sexual Health and HIV. United Kingdom national guidelines for the management of prostatitis. London: 2008.

Litwin MS, McNaughton-Collins M, Fowler FJ et al. The National Institutes of Health chronic prostatitis symptom index: development and validation of a new outcome measure. Journal of Urology. 1999; 162: 369-375

Chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS)

Aaron LA, Herrell R, Ashton S, Belcourt M, Schmaling K, Goldberg J, Buchwald D. "Comorbid Clinical Conditions in Chronic Fatigue, A Co-Twin Control Study". Journal of General Internal Medicine. January 2001:24-31.

Anothaisintawee T, Attia J, Nickel JC, Thammakraisorn S, Numthavaj P, McEvoy M, Thakkinstian A. Management of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. JAMA. 2011 Jan 5;305(1):78-86.

Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association of Sexual Health and HIV. United Kingdom national guidelines for the management of prostatitis. London: 2008.

Erickson BA, Schaeffer AJ, Van Le B. 2008. Chronic prostatitis. BMJ Clinical Evidence. Available at http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/conditions/msh/1802/1802-get.pdf [Accessed January 2009]

Habermacher GM. Chason JT. Schaeffer AJ. Prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. [Review] [51 refs] [Journal Article. Review] Annual Review of Medicine. 57:195-206, 2006.

Kreiger JN,Nyberg Jr, L and Nickel JC. NIH Consensus Definition and Classification of Prostatitis. NEJM 1999;81(3):236-237.

Magnus Fall, Andrew P. Baranowski, Sohier Elneil, Daniel Engeler, John Hughes,
Embert J. Messelink, Frank Oberpenning, Amanda C. de C. Williams. EAU Guidelines on Chronic Pelvic Pain. European Urology 57 (2010): 3 5 - 48.

McNaughton Collins M, MacDonald R and Wilt TJ. Diagnosis and Treatment of chronic abacterial prostatitis: a systematic review. Ann Intern Med 2000;133:367-381
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Acute bacterial prostatitis

Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association of Sexual Health and HIV. United Kingdom national guidelines for the management of prostatitis. London: 2008.

Kreiger JN,Nyberg Jr, L and Nickel JC. NIH Consensus Definition and Classification of Prostatitis. NEJM 1999;81(3):236-237.

Lipsky BA, Byren I, Hoey CT. Treatment of bacterial prostatitis. Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Jun 15;50(12):1641-52.

Ozden E, Bostanci Y, Yakupoglu KY, Akdeniz E, Yilmaz AF, Tulek N, Sarikaya S. Incidence of acute prostatitis caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli after transrectal prostate biopsy. Urology. 2009 Jul;74(1):119-23. Epub 2009 May 22.

Chronic bacterial prostatitis

Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association of Sexual Health and HIV. United Kingdom national guidelines for the management of prostatitis. London: 2008.

Nickel JC. Role of α1-blockers in chronic prostatitis syndromes. BJU International. 2008; 101 (supp 3): 11-16

Ozden E, Bostanci Y, Yakupoglu KY, Akdeniz E, Yilmaz AF, Tulek N, Sarikaya S. Incidence of acute prostatitis caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli after transrectal prostate biopsy. Urology. 2009 Jul;74(1):119-23. Epub 2009 May 22.

Asymptomatic prostatitis

Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association of Sexual Health and HIV. United Kingdom national guidelines for the management of prostatitis. London: 2008.

Am I more likely to get prostate cancer if I have prostatitis?
Fibbi B, Penna G, Morelli A, Adorini L, Maggi M. Chronic inflammation in the pathogenesis of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Int J Androl. 2010 Jun 1;33(3):475-88. Epub 2009 Jun 8.

Sciarra A, Mariotti G, Salciccia S, Gomez AA, Monti S, Toscano V, Di Silverio F. Prostate growth and inflammation. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2008 Feb;108(3-5):254-60.


The National Institute of Health chronic prostatitis symptom index

Litwin MS, McNaughton-Collins M, Fowler FJ et al. The National Institutes of Health chronic prostatitis symptom index: development and validation of a new outcome measure. Journal of Urology. 1999; 162: 369-375