Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Results of Acute Bacterial Prostatitis

Colonoscopy is a common procedure for diagnosing a wide range of conditions and symptoms affecting the large bowel. Research has shown that the examination itself may induce transient bacterial infections. Specifically acute bacterial prostatitis (ABP) has little mention in medical literature as a recognized complication of this procedure. Here we discuss a 37 year old male presenting with symptoms suggesting lower urinary tract infection after having undergone colonoscopy followed by recurrent episodic haematuria and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Physicians and endoscopists should be aware of the risk of acute bacterial prostatitis as a potential complication of colonoscopy in order to minimize misdiagnosis as well as the complications associated with the delayed treatment of it. In addition male patients and the immunocompromised should be fully counselled regarding this risk prior to undertaking this procedure.

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Acute Bacterial Prostatitis Induces Hematogenous Dissemination of Prostate Epithelial Cells

Clinical Chemistry ◽

10.1093/clinchem/43.10.2007 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 43 (10) ◽

pp. 2007-2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Frédéric Dumas ◽

Pascal Eschwège ◽

Sylvain Loric

Keyword(s):

Epithelial Cells ◽

Hematogenous Dissemination ◽

Bacterial Prostatitis ◽

Prostate Epithelial Cells ◽

Acute Bacterial Prostatitis

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Prostatitis—Clinical and Bacterial Studies

International Journal of STD & AIDS ◽

10.1177/095646249200300306 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 188-190 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

S Chandiok ◽

P G Fisk ◽

V C Riley

Keyword(s):

Chlamydia Trachomatis ◽

Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis ◽

Streptococcus Faecalis ◽

Bacterial Prostatitis ◽

The Mean ◽

Acute Bacterial Prostatitis

Forty men with clinical prostatitis were studied to determine the value of symptomatology and categorization and 30 (75%) were classified as having prostatitis on the basis of prostatic localization studies. Of these 3 (10%) had chronic bacterial prostatitis, 18 (60%) had chronic abacterial prostatitis, and 9 (30%) had prostatodynia. No patient had acute bacterial prostatitis. Although Enterobacteriaciae were isolated from the 3 men with chronic bacterial prostatitis, these bacteria along with Staphlococcus aureus, Streptococcus faecalis, and Chlamydia trachomatis were isolated from a further 6 patients. The mean pH of the expressed prostatic secretion was measured for each group and was found to be 7.6 for those with chronic bacterial prostatitis, 7.1 for chronic abacterial prostatitis, 6.5 for prostatodynia, and 6.9 for those with urethritis suggesting that this test may be of value in the diagnosis of chronic bacterial prostatitis.

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia and prostatitis in a patient with cystic fibrosis

Canadian Urological Association Journal ◽

10.5489/cuaj.173 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 7 (1-2) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Anju Anand ◽

Elizabeth Tullis ◽

Anne Stephenson ◽

J. Curtis Nickel ◽

Michael J. Leveridge

Keyword(s):

Cystic Fibrosis ◽

Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽

Lower Urinary Tract ◽

Pulmonary Infection ◽

Respiratory Infections ◽

Bacterial Prostatitis ◽

Systemic Dissemination ◽

Microbial Etiology ◽

Acute Bacterial Prostatitis ◽

Lower Urinary

Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) commonly suffer chronic respiratory infections, although systemic dissemination is relatively rare. Acute bacterial prostatitis presents dramatically and is believed to be mostly caused by local migration (with or without instrumentation) of the lower urinary tract and presents with a predictable microbial etiology. We report a case of a 26-year-old man presenting with acute Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterial prostatitis due to hematogenous propagation from a chronic pulmonary infection.

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