Clinicopathological association between BPH and prostatitis

This was a prospective study done in Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal to find out the relationship between BPH and BPH associated with prostatitis as regards their symptoms and histopathology. We looked at the symptoms of both disease processes and tried to establish whether we could differentiate between the two entities on a clinical basis. Our study included thirty six patients who were operated for symptoms suggestive of LUTS due to BPH. Prior to the operation they were asked about their symptoms and we correlated these for the two conditions. We analysed the results of the symptoms statistically according to the odd's ratio. We found that the most common symptom associated with BPH with prostatitis was dysuria, however, there was a lot of overlap of the symptoms. So unless there is a high degree of suspicion on the part of the health care worker it is difficult to make a diagnosis of prostatitis based on symptoms alone and it is difficult to distinguish between the two conditions. The histopathological specimens were analysed and it was found that 19 of the 36 patients had prostatitis associated with BPH. This was done by scrutinising the received histopathological specimens. Here it was found that the most common type of prostatitis associated with BPH was the stromal inflammatory pattern.