Which findings would the nurse expect in a patient diagnosed with chronic prostatitis?
A) Fever, chills, and dysuria
B) Chronic symptoms of prostatitis, recurrent urinary tract infection, epididymitis
C) Chronic pelvic pain, painful ejaculation, blood-tinged urine, and scrotal pain
D) Inflamed prostate, but no genitourinary tract symptoms
C) Chronic pelvic pain, painful ejaculation, blood-tinged urine, and scrotal pain
Explanation: A) Acute bacterial prostatitis causes symptoms of fever, chills, arthralgia, low back pain, pelvic pain, abdominal pain, perineal fullness, dysuria (painful urination), urinary frequency and urgency usually at night, painful ejaculation, foul-smelling urine, urinary obstruction, blood-tinged urine, and/or semen-tinged urine.
B) Chronic bacterial prostatitis is a chronic bacterial infection of the prostate that occurs with or without symptoms of prostatitis, often with recurrent UTIs caused by the same bacterial strain, associated with episodes of urethritis, epididymitis, or acute prostatitis.
C) The symptoms of chronic prostatitis include painful ejaculation; dysuria; blood-tinged urine; blood-tinged semen; and pain in the perineal, suprapubic, coccygeal, rectal, urethral, testicular, and scrotal areas.
D) In asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis there is prostate inflammation without genitourinary tract symptoms.
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