New words for old: lower urinary tract symptoms for "prostatism"

Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

www.trendsinmenshealth.com TRENDS IN UROLOGY & MEN’S HEALTH SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017 Bladder pain syndrome (BPS), also referred to as interstitial cystitis (IC), is a chronic and debilitating condition. It presents with lower urinary tract symptoms in the form of urinary frequency, urgency, nocturia, and suprapubic and pelvic pain. The severity of the symptoms varies from person to person. It is ...

Lower urinary tract symptoms in a 66-year-old man.

Lower urinary tract symptoms revisited.

In recent years, there has been an increased awareness of the importance of considering lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) as a global term. Under this umbrella term, disorders of bladder function can be most effectively considered as failure to store or failure to empty. We now clearly recognise the misconceptions inherent in the assumptions that all LUTS in men are caused by benign prostatic...

Lower urinary tract symptoms and urinary incontinence.

Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) is a global term which includes symptoms caused by failure to store urine and empty the bladder, and post-micturition symptoms. The term LUTS was initially coined in 1994. Before that urinary symptoms were frequently attributed to a particular organ such as the prostate [1]. Since then organocentric terms such as ‘prostatism’ have become increasingly obsolete...

A new approach to patients with lower urinary tract symptoms.

In their otherwise excellent editorial on lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), Blanker et al made two surprising assertions.1 They recommend rectal examination, especially when patients fear prostate cancer, but state that its objective value is limited. I presume theymean by this that rectal examination is poor at discriminating between benign and malignant prostatic disease. I agree. Therefor...