J Korean Med Sci.  2018 Apr;33(17):e126. 10.3346/jkms.2018.33.e126.

New Bacterial Infection in the Prostate after Transrectal Prostate Biopsy

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  • 1Department of Urology, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea. multiorigins@yahoo.com

Abstract

BACKGROUND
The prostate is prone to infections. Hypothetically, bacteria can be inoculated into the prostate during a transrectal prostate biopsy (TRPB) and progress into chronic bacterial prostatitis. Therefore, we examined new bacterial infections in biopsied prostates after TRPB and whether they affect clinical characteristics in the biopsied patients.
METHODS
Of men whose prostate cultures have been taken prior to TRPB, 105 men with bacteria-free benign prostate pathology underwent an additional repeated prostate culture within a year after TRPB.
RESULTS
Twenty out of 105 men (19.05%) acquired new bacteria in their naïve prostates after TRPB. Except for one single case of Escherichia coli infection, 19 men had acquired gram-positive bacteria species. Between the culture-positive and negative groups, there were no significant differences in age, serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level, white blood cell (WBC) counts in expressed prostatic secretion (EPS), prostate volume, symptom severities in Korean version of the National Institutes of Health-Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) questionnaire, and patient-specific risk factors for biopsy associated infectious complications. Additionally, the TRPB procedure increased the WBC counts in post-biopsy EPS (P = 0.031, McNemar test), but did not increase the serum PSA level and symptoms of NIH-CPSI in 20 men who acquired new bacteria after TRPB.
CONCLUSION
The TRPB procedure was significantly associated with acquiring new bacterial infections in the biopsied prostate, but these localized bacteria did not affect patients' serum PSA level and symptoms after biopsy.

Keyword

Bacterial Infection; New; Prostate Biopsy

MeSH Terms

Academies and Institutes
Bacteria
Bacterial Infections*
Biopsy*
Escherichia coli Infections
Gram-Positive Bacteria
Humans
Leukocytes
Male
Pathology
Prostate*
Prostate-Specific Antigen
Prostatitis
Risk Factors
Prostate-Specific Antigen
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