Table 2.
Causes of admission and clinical symptoms during the course of the disease of 371 patients with acute prostatitis (AP).
| Total patients | Department of admission | ||||
| Urology | Infectious Diseases | Internal Medicine | Geriatrics | ||
| n = 371 | n = 178 | n = 115 | n = 48 | n = 30 | |
| Cause of admission | |||||
| Fever | 297 (80%) | 142 (80%) | 97 (84%) | 37 (78%) | 19 (63%) |
| Urinary symptoms | |||||
| Functional symptoms | 266 (72%) | 153 (86%) | 69 (60%) | 27 (57%) | 15 (50%) |
| Bladder outlet obstruction | 61 (23%) | 52 (29%) | 9 (8%) | 12 (25%) | 6 (20%) |
| Cognitive disorder | 14 (4%) | 0 (0%) | 5 (4%) | 4 (8%) | 10((33%) |
| Miscellaneous symptoms | 28 (8%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (2%) | 21 (44%) | 7 (23%) |
| Main clinical symptoms during the course of AP | |||||
| Fever | 297 (80%) | 154 (84%) | 86 (80%) | 38 (78%) | 19 (63%) |
| Chills | 135 (35%) | 47 (25%) | 60 (56%) | 14 (28%) | 7 (23%) |
| Urinary symptoms | 266 (72%) | 158 (86%) | 65 (60%) | 28 (57%) | 15 (50%) |
| - burning micturition | 143 (54%) | 79 (50%) | 36 (55%) | 23 (82%) | 5 (33%) |
| - pollakiuria | 200 (52%) | 77 (49%) | 35 (54%) | 18 (64%) | 9 (60%) |
| - dysuria | 79 (30%) | 53 (34%) | 15 (23%) | 7 (25%) | 4 (27%) |
| - bladder outlet obstruction | 61 (23%) | 46 (29%) | 5 (8%) | 7 (25%) | 3 (20%) |
| - macroscopic haematuria | 46 (17%) | 33 (21%) | 9 (14%) | 2 (7%) | 2 (13%) |
| Pelvic pain | 144 (43%) | 98 (58%) | 27 (28%) | 18 (42%) | 1 (4%) |
| Abnormal digital rectal examination | 235 (83%) | 135 (89%) | 55 (70%) | 25 (83%) | 20 (91%) |
| - painful prostate palpation | 175 (63%) | 115 (77%) | 31 (39%) | 15 (50%) | 14 (64%) |
| - prostatic hypertrophy | 152 (54%) | 86 (57%) | 36 (46%) | 16 (53%) | 14 (63%) |
| - prostate irregularity | 66 (24%) | 44 (30%) | 10 (13%) | 4 (13%) | 8 (22%) |