Hypothesis / aims of study Hypothesis: The in vitro contractile properties of isolated human detrusor smooth muscle are a function of patient age, gender and lower urinary tract symptoms. Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) increase in prevalence with age [1] and common urodynamic observations associated with LUTS include detrusor overactivity (DO). Some studies [2], although not all, also sugg...

INTRODUCTION In March 2013, the European Association of Urology (EAU) released a new edition of the guidelines on management of male lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), including benign prostatic obstruction. The objective of this study was to evaluate how well the EAU guidelines have been implemented in day-to-day practice by Polish urologists. MATERIAL AND METHODS A structured questionnair...

<b>Aim:</b> Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) are common conditions seen in women of all ages and by clinicians nearly specialties. The prevalence LUTS has been measured numerous epidemiological studies around the globe. However, there insufficient data from India, particularly among consulting gynecology clinics. This observational study was conducted to determine proportion atte...

we assessed the lower urinary tract symptoms (luts) in prostatic cancer patients and investigated the sensitivity and specificity of international prostate symptom score (ipss) in the screening of these patients. a total number of 132 prostatic cancer patients as the case group who were confirmed by the pathologists and 101 noncancerous men as the control group, aged 50 or older, responded to a...

OBJECTIVE Chronic inflammation is considered as one of the contributing mechanisms of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Serum C-reactive protein (CRP) level is the widely used biomarker of inflammatory status. This study investigated the association between serum CRP level in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) before and after medical treatmen...

Lack of population-based data on lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) among African American men represents a significant gap in understanding. This study examined LUTS among a racially oversampled, mixed urban/rural, elderly cohort of African Americans and whites in the South to discern whether racial differences exist in the prevalence, severity, and associated risk factors of LUTS. Longitudin...

OBJECTIVE To summarise and meta-analyse current literature on metabolic syndrome (MetS) and benign prostatic enlargement (BPE), focusing on all the components of MetS and their relationship with prostate volume, transitional zone volume, prostate-specific antigen and urinary symptoms, as evidence suggests an association between MetS and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) due to BPE. METHODS ...