Infectious pathologies of the prostate]

Prostatitis represents an heterogenic disease: we describe acute bacterial prostatitis, chronic bacterial prostatitis, chronic abacterial prostatitis and prostatodynia. Acute bacterial prostatitis is treated easily as an acute infection since chronic prostatitis needs a long and difficult treatment. In both cases, fluoroquinolones are the antibiotics of choice. Prostatodynia is treated by alpha-blockers. Granulomatous prostatitis is evocated in terms of differential diagnosis.