Clinical experience in Treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) - one of the most common diseases of older men. This benign tumor is detected in 50% of men aged 50 years and at 80-90% - in the age of 80 years. There are more than
23 million men with symptomatic BPH.
In the US the number of registered patients with BPH is more than 500 thousand people. Therefore, it becomes clear not only medical but also social value of the whole range of problems associated with this disease
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Causes and symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia
BPH Symptoms. Accepted separate course of the disease into three stages:
I. At this stage, patients noted a sluggish stream of urine, there is frequent urination, accompanied by a strong urge, especially at night, as well as some difficulty urinating.
II. Stream of urine thinned and very sluggish and a feeling of incomplete emptying of the bladder, as part of urine after urination (100-200 ml) is still in it. At this stage it may be acute urinary retention, impaired renal function.
III. In the most severe stage of BPH and a so-called paradoxical ischuria - the bladder is full, the patient can not urinate because of complete lack of muscle tone in it, but the urine is released all the time drop by drop. Upper urinary tract extended, kidney function is increasingly impaired. More...
