Clinical, laboratory and ultrasonographic correlates of prostate calcifications in patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome.

Introduction: The research aim was to determine the role of clinical, laboratory, immunological and sonographic parameters in the development of an assessment tool for the symptomatic manifestations of prostate calcifications in chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS).

Material And Methods: All men underwent a transabdominal ultrasonographic examination using a grayscale B-mode and color Doppler mapping, the evaluation of the National Institutes of Health-Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, spermogram. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), serotonin and gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA), interleukins 1β and 10 were determined in blood serum and ejaculate.

Antibiotic therapy effectiveness as an outcome predictor of complex treatment in chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome.

Introduction: We hypothesized that the history of antibiotic efficacy was related to the outcome of the treatment of patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) and evaluated this as a phenotyping factor for such patients.

Material And Methods: This prospective study included 74 patients with CP/CPPS aged 18-45 years old, who had at least 10 points on the National Institutes of Health-Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) scale and did not receive treatment for CP/CPPS for the last 3 months. There were 5 visits.

COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF SPERMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS IN IDIOPATHIC FORMS OF INFERTILITY IN MEN FROM RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED AND CONVENTIONALLY CLEAN REGIONS OF UKRAINE.

Objective: the compare of men reproductive function with idiopathic infertility on the grounds of spermogram tests from the radioactively contaminated and conventionally clean regions of Ukraine.

Materials And Methods: There are 143 men (group I) with idiopathic infertility in the form of asthenozoospermia of the II degree living in the territories of the Kyiv region were investigated in the Department of Sexual Pathology and Andrology of the SI «Institute of Urology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine» and exposed to ionizing radiation due to the Chornobyl accident in 1986. All individuals in the I group were born from parents who were in the accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the area of radioactive contamination and perma- nently resided in areas with a high level of radioactivity.

The effectiveness of the combination of rectal electrostimulation and an antidepressant in the treatment of chronic abacterial prostatitis.

Introduction: Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a complex medical problem. Comorbid depression and chronic pain are highly prevalent in individuals suffering with chronic abacterial prostatitis (CAP) perhaps due to the direct or indirect effects of cytokines. Cytokines interact with the neuronal environment, and thus modulation of the duration of inflammation may alleviate depressive and pain symptoms.

Phospholipid composition of human sperm and seminal plasma in relation to sperm fertility.

The phospholipid and fatty acid composition of sperm was studied in 8 healthy and 16 infertile men. Infertile men randomly formed from the patients with normal semen parameters according to WHO criterion. Therefore, all semen parameters of infertile patients were similar to the same characteristics of the semen of healthy men, except the abnormal forms.