Doxycycline (Unidox Solutab®) and/or josamycin (Wilprafen®) in treatment of patients with prostatitis in real clinical practice. Results of the TAURUS observational program
Treatment of chronic prostatitis is a vital and complicated problem, in which a large number of stamps and «stereotyped» approaches often result in uncured patients. The increasing use of intracellular microorganisms in prostatitis etiology requires a modification in the standard approaches. TAU RU S study shows high efficacy of doxycycline (Unidox Solutab ®) and /or josamycin (Wilprafen®) in chronic prostatitis. Therapy, studied in this program, according to physicians, was effective in 93.2% of patients. Treatment failure was observed in 1.3% of all patients, another 5.5% of patients had insufficient data for assessment. Low incidence of adverse reactions was observed. In the study population, adverse reactions occurred in 2.6% of patients, of them serious adverse events were registered in 0.7% of patients. The most common adverse event in all treatment groups was diarrhea.