Is the presence of Chlamydia associated with increased leukocyte counts and pain severity in men with chronic pelvic pain syndrome?
Urinary chlamydial infection increased the pain scores and WBC counts in EPS and worsens the QOL in the patients with CP-CPPS.
These findings indicate that the macular dystrophy gene in this French family maps to the same region as that of North Carolina macular dystrophy (MCDR1) locus but that independent mutations are involved. The disease in the French family is clinically and genetically similar to North Carolina macular dystrophy. Therefore MCDR1 occurs in various ethnic groups, is present world-wide, and there remains no evidence of genetic heterogeneity for this clinically distinct form of macular degeneration.