What is Acute bacterial prostatitis?
What is Acute bacterial prostatitis?
- Acute bacterial prostatitis: Bacterial prostatitis is a bacterial inflammation of the prostate gland, in men.
Acute bacterial prostatitis: Introduction
Types of Acute bacterial prostatitis:
Broader types of Acute bacterial prostatitis:
How serious is Acute bacterial prostatitis?
Prognosis of Acute bacterial prostatitis: Bacterial prostatitis usually clears with antibiotics. However, it is important to take the full course to completely clear the infection. There is a risk that an acute infection may become a chronic (persistent) infection if you do not take the full course of antibiotics.
What causes Acute bacterial prostatitis?
Causes of Acute bacterial prostatitis: see causes of Acute bacterial prostatitis
What are the symptoms of Acute bacterial prostatitis?
Symptoms of Acute bacterial prostatitis:
see symptoms of Acute bacterial prostatitis
Acute bacterial prostatitis: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Acute bacterial prostatitis.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Acute bacterial prostatitis.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Acute bacterial prostatitis:
see treatments for Acute bacterial prostatitis
Research for Acute bacterial prostatitis:
see research for Acute bacterial prostatitis
Society issues for Acute bacterial prostatitis
Hospitalization statistics for Acute bacterial prostatitis:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Acute bacterial prostatitis:
- 0.023% (2,982) of hospital consultant episodes were for inflammatory diseases of prostate in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 95% of hospital consultant episodes for inflammatory diseases of prostate required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 100% of hospital consultant episodes for inflammatory diseases of prostate were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 14% of hospital consultant episodes for inflammatory diseases of prostate required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 4.7 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for inflammatory diseases of prostate in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Acute bacterial prostatitis:
Organs and body systems related to Acute bacterial prostatitis include:
Name and Aliases of Acute bacterial prostatitis
Main name of condition: Acute bacterial prostatitis
Class of Condition for Acute bacterial prostatitis: bacterial
Other names or spellings for Acute bacterial prostatitis:
Bacterial prostatitis, Prostatitis
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