Does recent COVID-19 infection result in elevated PSA?

A study from Turkey showed that PSA can increase sometimes dramatically in men with BPH (not necessarily with prostate cancer) during active COVID infection, from an average of 1.5 pre-COVID to 4.3 during active infection. (Cinislioglu et al., PMID 34626600). One can imagine a similar phenomenon may happen in prostate cancer patients as well.

My conjecture is that it may result from immune hyper-activation, similar to a PSA bounce phenomenon, but that is not based on any evidence.

In practice, as ...