Differentially Enhancing Effects of Long-term Treatment with Serrazyme, Boswellia and Pine on Seminal Bacterial Detection in Patients with Chronic Bacterial or Inflammatory Prostatitis, Probably Related to Several Degrees of Bacterial Adherence.

Autor:	Vicari E; Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy., Malaguarnera G; University of Catania, 95100 Catania, Italy., Vicari BO; University of Catania, 95100 Catania, Italy., Salmeri M; Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, Biological Tower, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy., Salemi M; IRCCS Oasi Institute for Research on Mental Retardation and Brain Aging, Via Conte Ruggiero 73, 94018 Troina, Italy., Castiglione R; Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Current clinical pharmacology [Curr Clin Pharmacol] 2018; Vol. 13 (3), pp. 183-189.
DOI:	10.2174/1574884713666180803114654
Abstrakt:	Background: Prostatitis is a recurrent urinary infection in males and is often difficult to cure. The aim of the study was to examine whether anti-inflammatory effects of enhanced drainage of prostatic secretions, obtained through two months treatment with a proteolytic enzyme mucoactive (PEM) compound (Serrazyme and other constituents), influenced qualitative or quantitative expressions of bacterial growth in seminal cultures. Method: 450 patients with prostatitis syndromes were randomized either to PEM therapy (intervention group) or to no treatment group. All patients were followed at the end of a 2-month PEM continuous treatment period (T2) and further two months after withdrawal (T4). Results: After treatment, 15 out of 107 (14.1%) patients with Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis (CBP) showed negative seminal cultures, while in patients with cat NIH-IIIA prostatitis seminal cultures became positive in 33.3% cases with low bacteriospermia. After two months from withdrawal, although among CBP patients the total number of isolates and colony forming units (CFU) counts showed not significant changes compared to matched-values observed at T2, microbial parameters varied significantly among inflammatory prostatitis patients. Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that 2 months of treatment with PEM, decreasing bacterial adherence and inflammatory prostatitis, reveals a subgroup of apparent inflammation associated with infection that microbial biofilms likely mask in inflammatory prostatitis patients. (Copyright© Bentham Science Publishers; For any queries, please email at epub@benthamscience.org.)
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