Value of intraprostatic injection of zinc and vitamin C and of ultrasound application in infertile men with chronic prostatitis.

Abstract

Seventy infertile men with chronic prostatitis were treated by prostatic massage and wide-spectrum chemotherapy as basic treatment to which intraprostatic injection of zinc or vitamin C with or without ultrasound application was added as a new line of treatment. Comparison showed no significant improvement of the additive treatment over the conventional treatment used alone. Pus cells in the expressed prostatic smear diminished significantly after treatment, which was associated with significant increase of percentage of motile spermatozoa and significant decrease of abnormal forms. Bacterial flora was studied in comparison with findings in 20 cases of infertile males without prostatitis; staphylococci predominated in both patient and control groups.

• Authors: M S Fahim, H H Ibrahim, S M Girgis, H A Essa, S Hanafi
• Journal: Archives of andrology (Arch Androl) Vol. 14 Issue 1 Pg. 81-7 ( 1985) ISSN: 0148-5016 [Print] England
• PMID: 3901948 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Zinc
• Ascorbic Acid

Topics

• Adult
• Ascorbic Acid (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
• Chronic Disease
• Escherichia coli
• Humans
• Infertility, Male (drug therapy, etiology)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Prostate (metabolism)
• Prostatitis (complications, microbiology, therapy)
• Semen (microbiology)
• Staphylococcus
• Streptococcus
• Ultrasonic Therapy
• Zinc (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)