Is there any harm in prostate surgery?

The prostate is very important to men. Once there is a problem with the prostate, it will not only affect the health of the body, but also affect the male fertility. Prostatitis is a very common male disease in life. Prostatitis can affect male sexual dysfunction and symptoms such as urgency and pain when urinating. Generally, prostatitis does not require surgery, and is mainly treated with physical therapy and massage.

What is prostatitis

Prostatitis is a systemic or local acute or chronic inflammation caused by prostate-specific and non-specific infection. Prostatitis can be divided into nonspecific bacterial prostatitis, prostate disease (idiopathic bacterial prostatitis), specific prostatitis (caused by gonococci, tuberculosis, fungi, parasites, etc.), nonspecific granulomatous prostatitis, prostatitis caused by other pathogens (such as viruses, mycoplasmas, chlamydia, etc.), prostate congestion and prostatitis.

According to the course of the disease, prostatitis can be divided into two categories: acute prostatitis and chronic prostatitis.

Patients with acute prostatitis will experience systemic symptoms such as chills, fever, and fatigue. Local symptoms include a feeling of heaviness in the perineum or suprapubic area, radiating to the waist, lower abdomen, back and thighs, and the feeling of heaviness is aggravated when sitting for a long time or defecating. If a small abscess is formed, the pain will be aggravated and defecation will be impossible. Urethral symptoms include burning sensation during urination, urgency, and frequency of urination, which may be accompanied by hematuria or purulent urethral discharge. Rectal symptoms include rectal distension, urgency and a feeling of defecation, and white discharge from the urethra during defecation.

Chronic prostatitis can be divided into bacterial prostatitis and prostatitis. Chronic bacterial prostatitis is often transformed from acute prostatitis, and prostatitis is often caused by viral infection, urinary stones, chronic congestion of the prostate, etc.

Classification of prostatitis

According to the course of the disease, prostatitis can be divided into two categories: acute prostatitis and chronic prostatitis. Chronic prostatitis is divided into three types: chronic bacterial prostatitis, non-bacterial prostatitis and prostatitis.

In 1998, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States reclassified prostatitis based on the previous classification according to the results of white blood cell count and bacterial culture of prostatic fluid, first urine after massage and (or) semen.

Type I: Equivalent to acute bacterial prostatitis in the traditional classification method;

Type II: Equivalent to chronic bacterial prostatitis in the traditional classification method;

Type III: chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome;

Type IV: Asymptomatic prostatitis.

Among them, nonbacterial prostatitis is far more common than bacterial prostatitis.