Zvara Peter, Folsom Jeffrey B, Plante Mark K
University of Vermont, D319 Given Building, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.
Curr Urol Rep. 2004 Aug;5(4):320-6. doi: 10.1007/s11934-004-0060-4.
A plethora of reports describe a number of promising new minimally invasive treatment modalities available to patients with chronic prostatitis. This article reviews these studies, with most evaluating treatments using heat or intraprostatic injection. The results are difficult to compare because of the inconsistencies in study design, modalities of treatment, and outcome measures. Standard criteria for assessing symptom severity in chronic prostatitis recently have been developed and prospective clinical trials are underway to evaluate minimally invasive therapies for this debilitating condition. Until definitive data from these trials are available, minimally invasive therapies most likely will continue to be empirical and not a standard of care.
大量报告描述了多种可供慢性前列腺炎患者使用的有前景的新型微创治疗方式。本文回顾了这些研究，其中大部分评估了使用热疗或前列腺内注射的治疗方法。由于研究设计、治疗方式和结果测量的不一致，结果难以比较。最近已经制定了评估慢性前列腺炎症状严重程度的标准，并且正在进行前瞻性临床试验以评估针对这种使人衰弱疾病的微创治疗方法。在获得这些试验的确切数据之前，微创治疗很可能仍将是经验性的，而非标准治疗方法。
