My research interest is in the interaction between immune and non-immune renal injury, which has led to work in the fields of inflammation and oxidative stress. This is when I began to see similarities between the tissue injury that we see in chronic transplant problems and the possible mechanisms behind nonbacterial prostatitis. I started to work on these problems in parallel and have found that the compounds I was studying to reduce renal injury seemed to be effective in some forms of prostatitis as well. Dr. Shoskes Prostatitis is literally defined as an inflammation of the prostate. The patient is acutely ill and may require hospitalization, but usually responds to antibiotics.
Chronic prostatitis has symptoms of pelvic pain, urination problems, and erectile dysfunction.
Infection is found in a minority of these patients. Dr. Shoskes BPH is a benign enlargement of the prostate, usually effecting men over 50 years of age. The urinary symptoms are often the same as we see in prostatitis, but there is very seldom pelvic pain, which is the most common symptom of prostatitis. Dr. Shoskes Cardura is an alpha blocker, that is used in both BPH and prostatitis to relax the smooth muscle around the base of the bladder and prostate, hence improving urinary symptoms. Side effects include dizziness, weakness, retrograde ejaculation and nasal stuffiness.