>      Prostatitis Clinics and Labs
>      Links to advanced clinics and labs relating to prostatitis. The
> Prostatitis Foundation makes no claim about the quality of care at these
> facilities but provides these links as a service to prostatitis sufferers.
> The only criterion for appearing on this page is that the clinic
> specializes or focuses on prostatitis. Some clinics here are not run by
> urologists. Please let us know through the mailbox below about your
> experiences at these clinics.
>
>           The Prostatitis Center in Tucson Arizona states that it is the
> only clinic in North America devoted exclusively to treating prostatitis.
> It was started by a grateful patient, retired airline pilot, Captain
> Arthur Brown, who had been successfully treated in the Philippines by Dr.
> Antonio E. Feliciano. Brown recruited his friend as medical director: Dr.
> John W. Polacheck, an internal medicine physician experienced in treating
> infectious diseases. Since opening in 1997, they have adjusted the Manila
> protocols in order to treat patients in the USA. The Tucson Prostatitis
> Center is also committed to research and has archived a large amount of
> original information on its website. Website Internet address:
> http://www.prostate-usa.com ("alternet": http://www.prostate-tucson.com )
> E-mail address: jpolacheck@attglobal.net ("alternet":
> jpolach@dakotacom.net ) Telephone: 520-622-4599 (alternate: 520-570-6011 )
> Fax: 520-903-9972
>           Dr. Stanley Antolak opened a new office in a suburb of the
> metropolitan
>            Twin Cities on December 1, 2003
>
>            Center for Urologic and Pelvic Pain
>            8650 Hudson Boulevard, Suite 325
>            Lake Elmo, MN 55042
>            651-735-9355
>            Fax 651-714-8255
>
>            The webpage has information relating to the practice there
> www.centerforurologicandpelvicpain.com
>           Pudendal Nerve Entrapment (PNE) has been discussed as a
> contributing factor in some cases of chronic prostatitis. Dr. Kenneth
> Renney in Houston Texas has experience with the problem both as a patient
> and physician. For information go to www.pudendal.info and www.hosma.com 
> where you can find directions to contact Dr. Renney's office.
>           Dr. Daniel Shoskes MD FRCS, formerly with UCLA and the Institute
> for Male Urology in California, is now at the Cleveland Clinic Florida in
> Ft. Lauderdale. Dr. Shoskes has his own website at http://www.dshoskes.com 
> (just click).There is a page on this site describing and linking to
> abstracts of two recent scientific papers by Dr. Shoskes on prostatitis.
>           Dr. Scott Zeitlin has opened the Los Angeles Infertility and
> Prostatitis Medical Group in Sherman Oaks, CA.
>
>            The address is
>            4955 Van Nuys Blvd., Suite 704
>            Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
>            Telephone 818-990-5020
>            Fax 818-990-8549
>
>            The advantage of the clinic is that it provides personalized
> individual attention to the needs of men with prostatitis and pelvic pain.
>
>           A prostatitis pain clinic which is seeking prostatitis patients
> for research has opened at the University of Connecticut. You an find out
> more by following this link: http://gcrc.uchc.edu/prostatitis/ "We are
> dedicated to improving our understanding of chronic prostatitis and pelvic
> pain. We are physicians, researchers and nurses at the General Clinical
> Research Center currently studying the role of inflamation on
> prostatitis."
>           The Prostatitis Clinic at the University of Washington in
> Seattle
>            Information about prostatitis studies at this clinic has been
> revised March 16, 2000. This clinic is led by Drs. Richard Berger, M.D.,
> Professor and John N. Krieger, M.D., Professor. Both are active in
> national efforts to find better methods of diagnosis and treatment of
> prostatitis.
>           At the Prostatitis & Prostate Cancer Center in Durango, CO, and
> Sarasota, FL Ronald E. Wheeler, M.D. offers a comprehensive urologic
> consultation that focuses on chronic intractible prostatitis and prostate
> cancer. Dr. Wheeler believes that prostatitis cause prostate cancer in a
> manner not dissimilar to how other well known inflammatory conditions lead
> to organ cancers. Dr. Wheeler has developed a patent-pending diagnostic
> test for prostatitis and an all natural prostate nutritional formula for
> chronic prostatitis. He is presently studying this formula in a
> comparative, randomized trial versus antibiotics. Physicians interested in
> participation in "The Prostatitis Challenge" may request the protocol by
> faxing 1-970-247-3074. Interested individuals may visit the website at
> http://www.theprostatecenter.com . Patients may schedule an appointment or
> get further information by calling: 1-888-733-6887.
>           Dr Attila Toth at the MacLeod laboratory offers direct
> antibiotic injections for the treatment of both prostatitis and
> epididymitis. A modified version of Dr Federico Guercini's protocol is
> used for transrectal antibiotic injections. The laboratory specializes in
> both male and female pelvic infections and infertility and offers expert
> microbiological evaluations of genital secretions.
>            Web address: www.fertilitysolution.com and
> www.prostatitisclinic.com
>
>            FOREIGN CLINICS
>           Ivan Aguilar Enriquez, a urologist in Mexico, is using BOTOX for
> the treatment of prostatitis, with great results in his patients.  He
> offers his services in Mexico for those seeking prostatitis treatment,
> since the FDA has not yet approved the treatment's use.  Dr. Aguilar is
> the only urologist in Mexico currently using the BOTOX method, which he
> learned from the UCLA Medical Center.
>
>            Ivan Aguilar
>
>            Urologist and Pediatric Urologist
>
>            Laparoscopic Surgeon
>
>            Kidney Transplantation Surgeon
>
>            Founder of the Urethral Stricture Clinic in the West Medical
> Center of the Social Security (IMSS)
>
>            Female Urologist
>
>            Certified by the Mexican Council of Urologist
>
>            Cell Phone: 33 31 70 93 96
>
>            Office: 33 36018763
>
>            Office Address: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra N.-32
>
>            Colonia Arcos Sur
>
>            Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico
>
>            e-mail: aguilucho18@hotmail.com
>
>           Dr. Frederico Guercini, a Urologist in Rome, Italy, has a web
> page describing his approach to prostatitis and his clinic. The site is
> available in both English and Italian and features many useful graphics
> and even a movie file of "exploding" prostate stones by direct injection.
>           In Manila, The Republic of The Philippines, Antonio E.
> Feliciano, Jr. M.D. offers a prostatitis clinic. Dr. Feliciano has shown
> that prostatic drainage concurrent with antibiotics and continued
> microbiological testing hastens recovery. There is a page on his website
> devoted to links to reports and discussions about Dr. Feliciano 's clinic,
> his techniques, and related topics.
>           Androgen Research Group's own statement on this server
>            Androgen Research Group's own site on free server in Poland
>            Androgen Research Group, in Odessa, Ukraine, offers treatment
> for prostatitis. Unedited self-description: "Dr. Vasily Bairaktar, Doctor
> of Medical Science at Odessa University, leads the scientific and clinical
> direction of the Androgen Research Group. Dr. Bairaktar with his
> colleagues use new, modern, and highly effective technologies to properly
> diagnose and treat patients suffering chronic inflammation of the
> prostate, seminal vesicles, and urine bladder. Over the last ten years
> Androgen Research Group has pioneered a new conceptual approach in
> treating the chronic prostatitis syndrome that does not involve the use of
> antibiotics at all. The group consists of the top specialists of the major
> medical schools of the city of Odessa, Ukraine. The following specialties
> are represented in the Group: Immunologists, microbiologists, virologists,
> mycologists, experts in ultrasonic diagnostics, experts in clinical and
> biochemical laboratory diagnostics, urologists, and endocrinologists. The
> powerful combination of such medical specialties helps provide an
> integrated and logical approach to treating this disease."
>           (Note: Dr. Tarfusser may no longer be seeing prostatitis
> patients) Dr. Ivo Tarfusser, an Italian physician who has been developing
> stronger science-based methods of treating prostatitis, has a WWW page
> full of information about his research and clinical work. Note: Because
> many people have been unable to connect to Dr. Tarfusser's site much of
> the time, the Prostatitis Foundation is providing a U.S.-based "echo" of
> Dr. Tarfusser's information. Click here to see a brief note on travelling
> to see Dr. Tarfusser and the costs involved.
>
>           At the Sanos Clinic in Moscow, the Russian Federation, they
> explain that "As the main reason of development of severe prostatitis are
> small microabscesses (closed foci of pyoinflammation 1-2 mm in size), they
> should be removed. The original method of SANOS consists in solving this
> surgical problem without operation." They state that "finger massage" can
> accomplish drainage, but frequently abcesses are plugged, so "Negative
> effects of finger massage can be corrected with our technique of prostatic
> drain using an original rectal pneumovibromassager."
> http://www.sanos.aha.ru/eng/index.htm is the English site.
> http://www.sanos.aha.ru is the Russian-language site.
>           Dr. Pavels Ivdra , at the Department of Urology at City Clinical
> Hospital No.7, in Riga, LATVIA, has a website describing his expertise in
> the treatment of prostatitis. "Diagnostics and treatment of prostatitis is
> a multidisciplinary problem that cannot be included into area of urology
> knowledge only," Dr. Ivdra writes. "We have 94 publications about
> prostatitis differential for diagnostics and treatment problems, including
> 34 inventions and copyright certificates on discoveries. We have worked
> out an alternative competeable antibiotic resistant enzyme therapy of
> chlamydial prostatitis with streptase, urokinase, tissue plasminogen
> activator (t-PA) while 20 years of work for Riga City Clinical Hospital
> No.7.".
>           Dr. XinPing Song, a Urologist in xiangtan, China, has a website
> describing his unique method to treat chronic prostatitis, and also has a
> forum on the internet for the patients who has received treatment in his
> clinic to exchange experience of curing prostatitis.
>
>            Dr Song says "I am a Urologist and I only treat prostatitis.
> Through making effort for more than ten years, have created a kind of
> unique method to treat prostatitis by myself. My method is direct
> injection at several positions, such as spermatophore,
> spermaduct,prostate, etc. Besides, assistant treatment with Chinese
> traditional medicine. I have my own clinic and laboratory."
>
>           Doctor Lihua Yang devotes himself to cure the prostatitis and
> BPH for more than 20 years, the clinic is located in shenzhen of guangdong
> province, China. the website is www.ylhpharm.com/index2.htm. He have
> invented 7 kinds of series chinese drugs, 4 kinds are taken by oral and 3
> kinds are used for external. He has cured 30 ten thousands patients for 20
> years, and the total effective rate is 97%, the cure root rate is 93%. He
> has cured the prostate diseases of nomarch in helongjiang province. The
> characters of remedy are the pure nature medicines do not give any harmful
> to men body and improve the sexual function after stop taking drugs; the
> drugs are taken directly, don't need decoction; patients don't come to the
> clinic can know his diseases statement and prescribe by doctor through
> email and mail the drugs to patients. Patients cure diseases in his home
> conveniently.
>            Other pointers relating to prostatitis, other prostate problems
> including prostate cancer or health care in general can be found at our
> pointers page.