Zinc and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) & Prostate Cancer (PCa) association

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (bph)

Comprehensive studies show that the holmium laser is ideal for treating BPH. Holmium laser treatments have been the most rigorously investigated BPH techniques. Over 90 articles have been published from 8 randomized clinical trials and over 30 case studies and comparative series. The American, European, British and Australasian urology associations recommend holmium laser for BPH treatment. Hol...

Prostate inflammation. Association with benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer.

OBJECTIVE To study the association and possible relationship of prostate inflammation with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and prostate cancer. METHODS The medical records and pathological findings of all Saudi patients who underwent transrectal ultrasound guided prostatic needle biopsies in King Abdulaziz University Medical City, Jeddah,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from June 2003 to June 2008...

Prostate artery embolization (PAE) for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

Surgical Options for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)

In 1788 John Hunter first described the pathology of prostatic hyperplasia and its effects on the upper urinary tract. It took a century for the first suprapubic prostatectomy to be carried out in 1887 by AF McGill in Leeds (though Americans tend to claim credit to Fuller in New York in 1894.) The procedure was subsequently p o p u l a r i s e d b y S i r Pe t e r F r e ye r . R e t r o p u b i...

Benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer.

Benign prostatic hyperplasia refers to an anatomic diagnosis, yet in practice it is typically diagnosed clinically on the basis of lower urinary tract symptoms and prostatic enlargement detected on manual rectal examination or transrectal ultrasonography (1). Over the past decade, since benign prostatic hyperplasia (2) and prostate cancer (3) were reviewed in this Journal, there has been a prol...