OBJECTIVE To analyze the underlying lower urinary tract dysfunctions by video-urodynamic studies in men who have persistent storage symptoms after initial drug therapy for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). METHODS The medical records of 614 men ≥40 years of age with LUTS and an International Prostate Symptom Score of ≥8 were retrospectively ...

CONTEXT Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) represent one of the most common clinical complaints in adult men and have multifactorial aetiology. OBJECTIVE To develop European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines on the assessment of men with non-neurogenic LUTS. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION A structured literature search on the assessment of non-neurogenic male LUTS was conducted. Articles with ...

Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) commonly affect older men. Fifty percent of men in their sixties and 80% of men in their nineties will be affected. Many of these men will seek care for their bothersome symptoms and decreased quality of life. There is a poor association between LUTS and objective measures such as post void residual, voided volumes...

Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) affect selfassessed quality of life. The aim of this study is to acquire useful information of LUTS diagnosis thorough uroflow and urophonography signal as a non-invasive method. This study proposed a method of measuring uroflow and urophonography at the same time for more accurate diagnosis in case uroflow looks normal due to compensatory function hypertroph...

Although some urogenital drugs such as tamsulosin or tolterodine have reached blockbuster status, the pharmacotherapy of urogenital disorders has been lagging behind many other therapeutic areas for a long time. Malformations and trauma of the urogenital tract are a clear domain of surgery, and malignant urogenital disease has more in common with malignancies of other tissues than with other ur...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of two surgical procedures for the correction of anterior vaginal wall prolapse (AVWP) on the lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) using symptom questionnaires and quality of life (QoL). MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred women with Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification stage (POP-Q) ≥ 2 were randomly distributed in two preoperatory groups. The first group (mesh)...

1 BACKGROUND Patient-reported experience is often used as a measure for quality of care, but no reports on patient satisfaction after male-to-female (MTF) sex reassignment surgery exist. Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) manifest multiple domains of clinical symptoms. LUTS can significantly reduce patients’ quality of life (QoL) and may point to serious pathology of the urogenital tract.1 The...

PURPOSE To assess the impact of periurethral calcification (PUC) according to its location on uroflowmetric parameters and urinary symptoms in patients with small prostate volume (PV). METHODS Records were obtained from a prospectively maintained database of first-visit men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Patients whose PV was >30 mL were excluded to elucidate more clearly the impac...