BACKGROUND Benign prostatic hyperplasia is a condition occurring in elderly men in which the prostate gland is enlarged, hence the condition also known as benign enlargement of prostate. Benign hyperplasia can lead to both obstructive and irritative symptoms. Transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) still remains the gold standard modality of surgical treatment of obstructive lower urinary tr...

Transurethral resection of the prostate is the gold standard in the operative management of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Bipolar transurethral resection of the prostate using saline solution is a safe technique and reduces the risk of transurethral resection syndrome. This report discusses a rare complication of bipolar transurethral resection of the prostate: the extravasation of 0.9% saline ...

Epidemiological studies that have investigated whether dairy (mainly milk) diets are associated with prostate cancer risk have led to controversial conclusions. In addition, no existing study clearly evaluated the effects of dairy/milk diets on prostate tumor progression, which is clinically highly relevant in view of the millions of men presenting with prostate pathologies worldwide, including...

Introduction: Proton MRS [e.g.1,2] and dynamic Gd-MRI [3] can each provide useful information for the diagnosis of human prostate pathologies. Combined use of these techniques may help improve characterisation of prostate cancer. The aim of this study was to compare, in the same patient, the ratio of the citrate and choline signals as obtained from MRSI with contrast agent uptake in the healthy...

This document presents data analysis similar to Wang (2011) using R package bst. Serum samples were collected from 77 benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH), 84 early stage prostate cancer, 83 late stage prostate cancer and 82 age-matched healthy men (HM). Peak detection and alignment were based on surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization (SELDI) mass spectrometry protein profiles. The data have...

: Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the overgrowth of prostate tissues with high prevalence in older men. BPH pathogenesis is not completely understood, but it is believed to be a result of de novo overgrowth of prostatic stroma. In this study, we show that aberrant activation of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) mobilizes mesenchymal/stromal stem cells (MSCs) in circulating blood, which...

There is considerable evidence for an association between prostate cancer development and inflammation, which results in autoantibody generation against tumor proteins. This immune system-driven amplification of the autoantibody response to intracellular antigens can serve as a sensitive tool to detect low abundance serum proteomic tumor markers for prostate cancer as well as provide insight in...

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...