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Even though recurrent urinary tract infections
are not
directly linked
to
the
Chronic Pelvic
Pain Syndrome,
they have a spectrum of indirect consequences:
A) In women
recurrent urinary tract infections
can be the causative or the initiative factor of
diseases included in the syndrome of Chronic Pelvic
Pain Syndrome such
as the
Interstitial Cystitis,
Dyspareunia,
Urinary
Incontinence.
B) In men
recurrent urinary tract infections
can also be considered as a cause of diseases such
as
Chronic Prostatitis,
Interstitial
Cystitis,
and with indirect mechanisms of
Erectile
Dysfunction.
C) In patients with
Neurogenic
Bladder,
recurrent urinary tract infections
are
a
frequent phenomenon, and may worsen
its symptoms mainly Urinary Incontinence.
The most important sequelae of urinary tract
infections is that deteriorating the –already
limited –urine storage capacity of the urinary
bladder, infected urine can go in retrograde fashion
up to the kidneys
causing damage to them.
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