This page consists of three sections:

• general aspects of chronic prostatitis
  
  
• chronic non-bacterial prostatitis
  including granulomatous prostatitis, eosinophilic prostatitis and autoimmune prostatitis
  
  
• chronic bacterial prostatitis

• Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome and male interstitial cystitis: enigmas and opportunities.
  Forrest JB, Nickel JC, Moldwin RM. Urology 2007;69(4 Suppl):60-3.

• Clinical practice. Chronic prostatitis and the chronic pelvic pain syndrome.
  Schaeffer AJ. N Engl J Med 2006;355:1690-8
  • a Clinical Practice article

• Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome and interstitial cystitis: are they related?
  Pontari MA. Curr Urol Rep 2006;7:329-34

• Interstitial cystitis, chronic nonbacterial prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men: a common and frequently identical clinical entity.
  Forrest JB, Schmidt S. J Urol 2004;172(6 Pt 2):2561-2

• Interstitial cystitis, gynecologic pelvic pain, prostatitis, and their epidemiology.
  Diokno AC, Homma Y, Sekiguchi Y, Suzuki Y. Int J Urol 2003;10 Suppl:S3-6.

• Etiology: where does prostatitis stop and interstitial cystitis begin?
  Eisenberg ER, Moldwin RM. World J Urol 2003;21:64-9

• Observations on the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of interstitial cystitis in men.
  Forrest JB, Vo Q. Urology 2001;57(6 Suppl 1):26-9

• Granulomatous prostatitis.
  Uzoh CC, Uff JS, Okeke AA. BJU Int 2006 Dec 1; [Epub ahead of print]
  • granulomatous prostatitis (GnP) accounts for about 1% of benign inflammatory conditions of the prostate
  • GnP mimics prostate cancer clinically, histologically, biochemically, ultrasonographically and radiologically
  • carcinoma was clinically suspected in up to 59% of cases of GnP and cCarcinoma coexisted in 10–14% of patients with clinically diagnosed GnP
  • in this review the dilemma of clinical management, especially when GnP is found on prostatic biopsies, is discussed

• Granulomatous prostatitis linked to HLA-DRB1*1501.
  Alexander RB, Mann DL, Borkowski AA, et al. J Urol 2004;171:2326-9

• Churg-Strauss syndrome presenting with eosinophilic prostatitis.
  Kiyokawa H, Koyama M, Kato H. Int J Urol 2006;13:838-40

• [A 46-year-old-patient with granulomatous prostatitis, arthralgia and haemorrhagic rhinitis] [Article in German]
  Heldmann F, Brandt J, Schoppe H, et al. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 2006;131:22-5

• Abacterial prostatitis and primary biliary cirrhosis with Sjögren's syndrome.
  Yasuda S, Ogura N, Horita T, et al. Mod Rheumatol 2004;14:70-2

• IgG4-associated prostatitis complicating autoimmune pancreatitis.
  Yoshimura Y, Takeda S, Ieki Y, et al. Intern Med 2006;45:897-901

• Immunological alterations in the ejaculate of chronic prostatitis patients: clues for autoimmunity.
  John H, Maake C, Barghorn A, et al. Andrologia 2003;35:294-9

• Autoimmune prostatitis: evidence of T cell reactivity with normal prostatic proteins.
  Alexander RB, Brady F, Ponniah S. Urology 1997;50:893-9

• Management of bacterial prostatitis: what's new?
  Naber KG. BJU Int 2008 Mar;101 Suppl 3:7-10.
  - 500 mg levofloxacin once daily for 4 weeks is as effective as 500 mg ciprofloxacine twice daily

• Chronic bacterial prostatitis: an evolving clinical enigma.
  Nickel JC, Moon T. Urology 2005;66:2-8

• The role of antibiotics in chronic bacterial prostatitis.
  Wagenlehner FM, Weidner W, Sorgel F, et al. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2005;26:1-7

• Voiding dysfunction associated with "chronic bacterial prostatitis".
  Ghobish A. Eur Urol 2002;42:159-62