Seminal, clinical and colour‐Doppler ultrasound correlations of prostatitis‐like symptoms in males of infertile couples

• Published in: Andrology (Oxford) Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 30 - 41
• Main Authors: Lotti, F., Corona, G., Mondaini, N., Maseroli, E., Rossi, M., Filimberti, E., Noci, I., Forti, G., Maggi, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Schaumburg, IL American Society of Andrology 01.01.2014; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Birth control; Epididymis - immunology; Epididymis - pathology; Epididymitis; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics; Humans; Infertility; Infertility, Male - diagnostic imaging; Inflammation - immunology; Interleukin-8 - analysis; Male; Male genital diseases; male infertility; Males; Mammalian male genital system; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; National Institutes of Health‐Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index; Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases; Pelvic Pain - complications; Prostate - immunology; Prostate - pathology; Prostatitis - diagnosis; Prostatitis - diagnostic imaging; Prostatitis - epidemiology; prostatitis‐like symptoms; Retrospective Studies; scrotal and transrectal colour‐Doppler ultrasound; Semen; Semen Analysis; seminal and laboratory parameters; Seminal Vesicles - immunology; Seminal Vesicles - pathology; Sperm; Sterility. Assisted procreation; Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Testis - immunology; Testis - pathology; Testosterone - blood; Ultrasonography; Urinary system involvement in other diseases. Miscellaneous; Urinary tract. Prostate gland; Urine; Vertebrates: reproduction; Young Adult; Urinary system disease; Prostate disease; National Institutes of Health-Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index; Male; Conjugal sterility; male infertility; Scrotum; Chronic; seminal and laboratory parameters; prostatitis-like symptoms; scrotal and transrectal colour-Doppler ultrasound; Male sterility; Prostatitis; Male genital diseases; Ultrasound

Summary ‘Prostatitis‐like symptoms’ (PLS) are a cluster of bothersome conditions defined as ‘perineal and/or ejaculatory pain or discomfort and National Institutes of Health‐Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH‐CPSI) pain subdomain score ≥4’ (Nickel's criteria). PLS may originate from the pro...