Prostatitis: Etiopathology, Diagnosis and Therapy

I Introduction.- Classification, Etiology, and Diagnosis of Prostatitis.- II Prostatitis: Basic Data.- Physiology and Pathophysiology of Prostate Infection.- Host-Parasite Interactions in Prostatitis.- The Anatomy of the Prostate: Relationship with Prostatic Infection.- Complaint Complexes and Psychosomatic Aspects.- Diagnostic Management in Chronic Prostatitis.- Ultrasonographic Features of Prostatitis.- Prostatitis and Male Infertility.- Basis for Antibacterial Treatment of Prostatitis: Experimental and Clinical Pharmacokinetic Studies and Models.- Experimental Prostatitis.- III Acute Bacterial Prostatitis.- Acute Prostatitis and Prostatic Abscess.- IV Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis.- Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Inflammatory Reactions in Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis.- The Treatment of Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis: Principles and Management.- The Role of Quinolones in the Treatment of Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis.- In Loco Antibiotics in Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis.- Radical Transurethral Prostatectomy for Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis.- Radical Prostatectomy for Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis.- Immunotherapy and Prostatitis.- V Nonbacterial Prostatitis.- The Diagnosis, Aetiology and Pathogenesis of Chronic Abacterial Prostatitis.- Prostatic Infection by Unconventional, Fastidious Pathogens.- Trichomonas vaginalis.- Therapy of Nonbacterial Prostatitis.- Microwave Hyperthermia for Chronic Prostatitis and Prostatodynia.