Prostatitis - bacterial chronic

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Male reproductive anatomy

MONITORING:

See your health care provider for an exam after you finish taking antibiotics to make sure that the infection is gone.

Support Groups

Expectations (prognosis)

It is common for symptoms to return.

Complications

If the prostate is very large, it can slow urine flow through the urethra and cause the backward flow (reflux) of urine toward the kidneys, which can cause kidney damage.

If the flow of urine completely stops, it is considered an emergency.

Calling your health care provider

Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of chronic prostatitis.

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Review Date: 09/30/2009
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Scott Miller, MD, Urologist in private practice in Atlanta, GA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org).