If the course of adequate antibiotic therapy was unsuccessful, no other antibiotics should be prescribed. In this case, good results can be obtained if we start to carry out pathogenetic treatment of chronic prostatitis.
As a rule, acute prostatitis is easily recognized and successfully treated, therefore, it does not cause particular difficulties for urologists.
Since long ago, urologists have recognized the clinical differences between acute and chronic inflammation of the prostate. At the same time, active, latent and bacterial prostatitis was distinguished. After the discovery of the role of microorganisms in the etiology of this disease, prostatitis was classified as primary (caused by gonococcal infection) and secondary - as a consequence of other infections.