CONTEXT Interest in having alternatives in the treatment of benign prostate hyperplasia. OBJECTIVES To assess the efficacy and safety of the Urolift® system for treating the symptoms of benign prostate hyperplasia. ACQUISITION OF EVIDENCE Systematic review of the literature through searches on PubMed, Cochrane Library, CRD, Clinical Trials and EuroScan, collecting indicators of efficacy and...

[Purpose] To investigate the effect of pulsed electromagnetic field with or without exercise therapy in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. [Subjects and Methods] Sixty male patients aged 55-65 years with benign prostatic hyperplasia were invited to participate in this study. Patients were randomly assigned to Group A (n=20; patients who received pulsed electromagnetic field in addit...

Background: Benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) is a classical age-related disease of the prostate, present in 20% of men at the age of 40 years with progression to 70% by the age of 60 years. BPH is associated with various lower urinary tract symptoms, which affect their day-to-day life. Materials and methods: Our objective was to evaluate the association between HER-2/neu, c-myc, p53, and clini...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the therapeutic role of botulinum toxin injection in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia. METHODS Men with benign prostatic hyperplasia were enrolled in a randomized, placebo-controlled study. After a baseline evaluation, each participant received 4 mL of solution injected into the prostate gland. Patients in the control group received saline solution and patients in ...

background: estimating prostate volume using less invasive transabdominal ultrasonography (taus) instead of transrectal ultrasonography (trus) is of interest in terms of identifying their agreement level. previous reports on this subject, applied general correlation coefficient as the level of agreement. this study uses bland-altman method to quantify taus and trus agreement on estimating prost...

PURPOSE With the aim of evaluating the clinical significance of systematic prostate biopsy before transurethral resection of the prostate (TUR-P), clinical data were reviewed retrospectively in patients who had underwent prostate biopsy prior to scheduled TUR-P. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between July, 1994 and June, 2000, TUR-P was scheduled in a total number of 456 patients with clinically diagno...

Chandraprabha vati, an Ayurvedic formulation, was studied for its effect in experimental prostatic hyperplasia induced by testosterone injection s.c for 21 days in rats and inflammation induced in rat hind paw by carrageenan injection s.c. The results showed that Chandraprabha vati at dosage of 100, 200 and 400 mg/kg orally for 21 days showed significant reduction of prostatic hyperplasia as in...

conclusions w. coagulans inhibits the development of bph can be useful for the treatment of this condition. results the present study revealed that bph caused elevation of mda levels, suppression of tac levels, and increased pcna expression in the prostate gland. interestingly, in a dose-dependent manner, wce caused decreased mda levels and increased tac levels in the prostate gland, compared t...