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Prostatitis (cont.)

Acute bacterial prostatitis is curable with a short course of antibiotics.
Chronic bacterial prostatitis is often recurrent even with appropriate therapy. Fortunately, the disease tends to be asymptomatic.
Chronic pelvic pain syndrome will be challenging for the patient and the health care practitioner. Symptoms tend to linger and be difficult to control.
Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis is not clinically significant and does not require treatment.

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