To date, prostatitis is the most common disease of the male sexual sphere. The malaise manifests itself in the form of inflammation of the prostate gland and is accompanied by swelling of the tissues.
Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis (Category IV according to the NIH classification) is a histologically confirmed, clinically latent bacterial or abacterial inflammation of the prostate that is detected during examination for other diseases.
In clinical practice - when there are stones in the case of inflammation of the prostate gland (in Latin calculus - a pebble) - calculous prostatitis is diagnosed. Although this type of prostatitis in ICD-10 is not allocated, and prostate stones are assigned to a separate subcategory.
Chronic prostatitis was the most common reason for seeking treatment for a urologist under the age of 50; This category of patients accounted for 8% of all patients receiving outpatient urology in the United States. On average, the urologist takes 150-250 patients with prostatitis a year, about 50 of which are newly diagnosed patients.
The first successes of laser therapy for chronic prostatitis were associated with LRT, which is able to penetrate sufficiently into the prostate tissue. However, some authors noted earlier that the use of low-intensity laser therapy in the complex treatment of chronic prostatitis makes it possible to achieve rather high treatment efficacy and shorten the treatment period.
The results of digital rectal examination (PRI) are the basis for drawing up a plan for further examination of a patient with suspected chronic prostatitis. The method is valuable not only for its simplicity and general availability, but also for its high informativeness.