Prostatitis and Its Management Concepts and Recommendations for Clin
This book provides comprehensive coverage of the current and emerging management of prostatitis, from diagnosis to therapy. It addresses all clinical aspects of the prostatitis syndrome and equips the reader with all the information needed to offer a tail
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Prostatitis and Its Management
Concepts and Recommendations for Clinical Practice
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Prostatitis and Its Management
Tommaso Cai • Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen Editors
Prostatitis and Its Management Concepts and Recommendations for Clinical Practice
Editors Tommaso Cai Department of Urology Santa Chiara Regional Hospital Trento Italy
Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen Department of Urology Oslo University Hospital Oslo Norway
ISBN 978-3-319-25173-8 ISBN 978-3-319-25175-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25175-2
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Foreword
After many years of daily involvement in clinical management of urologic patients, I can surely say that prostatitis is one of the biggest clinical challenges within our discipline. The two main characteristics of the disease are its high frequency while – at the same time – limited knowledge is available to the practitioner about the disease and, secondly, its low prognostic severity yet strong impact on their patients’ quality of life. This is due to the fact that this urological topic still remains poorly understood, inadequately treated and under-researched. Surely much has changed over the last decades. The initial classification system that was based upon the “4-glass test” has been replaced by a more recent classification system introduced by the National Institute of Health (NIH) focusing on clinical symptoms rather than aetiology which still remains largely unknown. For a long time a validated symptom score was not available, and well-conducted clinical trials were completely lacking. Outcome research has improved our understanding of the incidence, quality of life and economic impact of the disease. Finally, we n
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