The prostatitis examination program includes rectal fingerprinting, laboratory tests, ultrasound, urodynamic examination and other items.
1. Rectal examination: acute prostatitis acute attack period temporarily do not do rectal examination, so as to avoid the spread of inflammation, chronic prostatitis can be rectal fingerprinting, the examination of the prostate gland has a sense of swelling.
2. Laboratory examination: prostatitis can do prostate fluid examination, including prostate fluid routine examination, bacterial culture, blood routine, urine routine, prostate fluid mycoplasma, chlamydia, pathogenic bacteria and other items.
3. Ultrasound: Ultrasound can be used to observe the size and shape of the prostate and the internal structure of the gland. Prostatitis ultrasound shows that the prostate echoes are uneven, there are calcifications or stones inside the prostate, and the boundaries of the prostate tissues and structures are unclear and disorganized, which suggests that prostatitis is present.
4. urodynamic examination: prostatitis urodynamic examination, there is a decrease in the rate of urinary flow, bladder neck – urethral sphincter incomplete relaxation, maximum urethral closure pressure abnormally high performance.
Others include prostate CT, magnetic resonance, cystourethroscopy, etc. Patients with prostatitis are advised to go to the hospital for examination and active treatment.