[Epidemiology and treatment of acute prostatitis after prostatic biopsy].

Objective: Acute prostatitis is the main complication of prostatic biopsies (PB) and sometimes requires hospitalisation and appropriate antibiotic therapy. This study evaluated the pathogens responsible and proposes a statistically adapted empirical antibiotic therapy.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective (from 2000 to 2006) two-centre study included 17 patients hospitalised for acute prostatitis after PB in a series of 1,216 biopsies.