Category IIIB chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome and sexual dysfunction

Abstract

The paper reviews the literature on the topical urological problem category IIIB chronic nonbacterial prostatitis (CNBP)/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) and sexual dysfunction in this abnormality. As of now, there is no precise information on the etiology and pathogenesis of CNBP/CPPS and sexual dysfunction in this disease. Despite a considerable body of published work, the disease remains inadequately studied and untreatable.The diagnosis of CNBP/CPPS is most likely to mask a high range of different conditions, including those when the prostate is only indirectly or by no means involved in the pathological process. Some factors, such as pudendal neuropathy with the development of chronic prostatitis, CPPB, vesical obstruction, and neuroautonomic disorders, may be etiological and pathogenetic simultaneously.The problem of CNBP therapy remains unsolved so far in spite of a diversity of used treatments. Therapeutic approaches are generally aimed only at improving quality of life in a patient. All existing treatments for chronic prostatitis imply for reducing the level of sexual dysfunction too as a desirable result. Hopes for improving the results of treatment are associated with progress in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of these conditions, with the improvement and detailed elaboration of clinical classification of the disease, and with the accumulation of the valid clinical results characterizing the efficacy and safety of drugs in well-defined patient groups.

Keywords

• category iiib chronic prostatitis
• chronic pelvic pain syndrome
• etiology
• pathogenesis
• treatment