Medical Review Shows CPPS is a Syndrome Rather than a Specific Disease - Prostatitis Foundation



The Prostatitis Foundation today cited a 2005 medical review that shows that Category III chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, also known as CPPS, is a syndrome rather than a specific disease and that the cause can be multifactorial.

The review, entitled "Multimodal therapy for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome" and published by Current Urology Reports, 2005 July, 6(4):296-9, also said that monotherapy has often proven ineffective in clinical practice.

"Multimodal therapy, which sequentially or simultaneously can address infection, inflammation, and neuromuscular spasms appears to have the greatest potential for symptom improvement, especially in patients with longstanding symptoms" said Dr. Shoskes in the review.

Dr. Shoskes is a urologist at the Glickman Urological Institute and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. His clinical subspecialty areas are renal transplantation, chronic prostatitis and interstitial cystitis.

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Medical Review Shows CPPS is a Syndrome Rather than a Specific Disease - Prostatitis Foundation