A perfectly well 39-year-old man sneezed during micturition and developed classic features of acute bacterial prostatitis corroborated by laboratory evidence of prostatic inflammation/infection. The prostate-specific antigen level at presentation was 9.
6 ng/mL and declined to 1. 23 ng/mL one month later on levofloxacin. This is the first report in the medical literature of sneezing while voiding being a possible trigger of acute bacterial prostatitis. A biologically plausible mechanism is provided.
Case reports in urology. 2015 Aug 18 [Epub]
William Derval Aiken
Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Section of Surgery, Division of Urology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica.