Talk:Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis
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Asymptomatic or just painless?
[edit]Urinary symptoms are increasingly common as men get older. So called 'asymptomatic' inflammatory prostatitis is not necessarily asymptomatic, so it cannot be defined as "an asymptomatic (symptomless) condition". It is by definition painless prostatitis with no evidence of infection.
It is often identified incidentally during urologic evaluation including, for example, in prostate tissue removed during TURP, which would only conceivably be done in the presence of urinary symptoms. Even with a diagnosis of benign prostatic hyperplasia, it would be presumptive to ascribe all urological symptoms to the BPH alone when evidence of inflammation also exists. McLondon (talk) 22:50, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
- Bear in mind that we have no idea if the LUTS in BPH is the result of prostate inflammation or merely the result of the hyperplasia. Ratel (talk) 00:20, 28 February 2015 (UTC)