Chronobiological approach to the treatment of patients with benign prostate hyperplasia and chronic prostatitis: results of a morphological examination

Abstract

MATERIALS AND METHODS: 60 patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and category II chronic prostatitis (NIH, 1995) were examined. The average age of the patients was 60.55.5 years. The patients were divided into two groups of 30 people each. The comparison group (GC) included patients who received standard therapy with drugs from the group of alpha-blockers and fluoroquinolones. The main group (MG) consisted of patients who received standard therapy in combination with physiotherapy sessions with the device SMART-PROST, which were carried out in the acrophase of the chronorhythm. After the end of the course of therapy all patients underwent transurethral resection of the prostate, after which a morphological and morphometric (immunohistochemical) study of the obtained material was carried out. RESULTS: According to the results of the morphological and morphometric examination of the histological material in patients of the CG and MG, statistically significant differences were revealed in all the studied parameters, which testify to the persistence of signs of the inflammatory process in the CG, while in the MG, the severity of inflammation was significantly lower. CONCLUSION: According to the results of the study, personalized complex therapy of patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia in combination with chronic prostatitis using a combined physiotherapeutic effect of the SMART-PROST device, taking into account the individual chronobiological characteristics of patients, allows to more effectively arrest the inflammatory process in the prostate tissue, which can lead to a decrease in the number of postoperative complications. However, the last statement requires further more detailed study.