IS CHRONIC PROSTATITIS/CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME ASSOCIATED WITH
CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS?: A STUDY BASED ON “NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF
HEALTH- CHRONIC PROSTATITIS SYMPTOM INDEX” AND “SINONASAL OUTCOME
TEST-22” QUESTIONNAIRES
Abstract
Objectives/Aims: Prostatitis is a common entity that is seen in younger
than 50 years old men in urology clinics. Subcategory of chronic
prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) accounts for more
than 90% of cases of prostatitis and heterogeneous symptoms cause
negative impact on quality of life. Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a
common inflammatory disease of the upper airways and results in a
constellation of symptoms that have a significant negative effect on a
patient’s quality of life, either. However, both of these entities may
share an inflammatory background because of systemic inflammatory
responses and endocrine effects of cytokines. In this study, we aimed to
find if any symptomatic correlation between CP/CPPS and CRS that can be
measurable with National Institute of Health- Chronic Prostatitis
Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) and Sinonasal Outcome Test-22 (SNOT-22)
validated symptom scores. Methods: Patients from urology (n:113) and
ear-nose-throat (ENT) clinics (n:104) are included in this study. They
were questionned with NIH-CPSI and SNOT-22. Also, they were evaluated if
there was a correlation between these scores and some parameters (e.g.
age, marital status, smoking, masturbation frequency, concomitant
inflammatory diseases). Results: As our main result we found out a
low-moderate correlation between NIH-CPSI and SNOT-22 scores (r:0.370
for urology, r: 0.466 for ENT patients). Conclusions: In this study we
found that, CP/CPPS and CRS have a low correlated relationship
symptomatically. We suggest that with further studies and additional
data, CP/CPPS and CRS symptom relation might have been connected to a
possible main root.