Urologia

Antibiotics for PSA

When there are slightly higher PSA values, some clinicians treat the patient with antibiotics, aiming at acting against a possible prostatitis which increases those values and also to obtain a reassurance “ex juvantibus”: the decrease of PSA would show the absence of cancers. In order to verify that this approach can be shared, a randomized trial has been performed in Brazil: 98 asymptomatic males (between 50 and 75 years of age) with PSA levels between 2.5 and 10 ng/dl, affected by probable prostatitis (increase in leukocytes in urines after prostatic massage or presence of urethral secretion) and with a normal rectal exploration have been enrolled.
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