Chronic prostatitis collaborative clinical studies

描述(由申请人提供)： 慢性前列腺炎/慢性盆腔疼痛综合症是一种常见但知之甚少的疾病，影响着所有年龄段的男性。几十年来，感染一直主导着人们对这种疾病的看法。然而，越来越多的证据对感染会导致相当大一部分患者出现症状的观点提出了重大挑战。这些新信息大部分是由慢性前列腺炎合作研究网络(CPCRN)开发的，这是一个为期六年的项目，代表了NIH资助的第一个慢性前列腺炎合作研究。这项申请的长期目标是继续参与慢性前列腺炎合作研究网络。此外，我们将与研究间质性膀胱炎的研究人员合作，在一个伞形组织-泌尿系慢性盆腔疼痛综合征协作组下。我们描述了我们中心在过去7年中在慢性前列腺炎/慢性盆腔疼痛综合征研究方面的活动，并描述了我们建议作为合作小组的一部分继续应用于慢性前列腺炎/慢性盆腔疼痛综合征研究的临床和研究基础设施和专业知识。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome is a common but poorly understood condition affecting men of all ages. Infection has dominated the thinking about this disease for decades. However, a growing body of evidence provides significant challenge to the notion that infection contributes to symptoms in a significant proportion of patients. Much of this new information was developed by the Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network (CPCRN), a six year project representing the first NIH-funded collaborative study of chronic prostatitis. The long-term goal of this application is the continuation of our involvement in the Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network. In addition, we will collaborate with investigators studying interstitial cystitis under an umbrella group, the Urological Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes Collaborative Group. We describe the activities at our center over the past 7 years in the study of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome and describe the clinical and research infrastructure and expertise that we propose to continue to apply to the study of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome as part of this cooperative group.