PURPOSE This study aimed to determine the urethral stricture (US) rate and identify clinical and surgical risk factors associated with US occurrence after transurethral resection of the prostate using the bipolar Gyrus PlasmaKinetic Tissue Management System (PK-TURP). MATERIALS AND METHODS This was an age-matched case-control study of US occurrence after PK-TURP. Retrospective data were colle...

OBJECTIVE Determine how serum prostate-specific antigen (t-PSA) levels and free PSA (f/t PSA) ratio change following transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty men with a mean age of 67.0 +/- 4.2 years (range 46 to 84 years) underwent TURP for BPH between May 2005 and October 2005. Preoperative assessment included symptom evaluation with the International Pro...

To the editor: The article by Tan et al. [1] is indeed interesting. This article is one of the rare reports about surgical risk factors associated with urethral stricture (US) occurrence after bipolar transurethral resection of prostate (B-TURP) using the Gyrus PlasmaKinetic Tissue Management System (Gyrus ACMI, Southborough, MA, USA). The results seem some interesting and were consistent with ...

The murine monoclonal antibodies TURP-27 and HNK-1 have been shown to detect antigens which are heavily expressed by benign prostatic hyperplasia and carcinoma of the prostate. Western blot analysis of prostate extracts showed that monoclonal antibodies TURP-27 and HNK-1 bound glycoproteins with molecular weights of 180,000,140,000, 120,000,100,000,90,000, and 69,000. Studies have shown that th...

Transurethral Resection of the Prostate (TURP) is now the preferred method for dealing with the obstructing prostate. This procedure was reintroduced to the Penang General Hospital in August 1985. Over the next one and a half years, 100 TURP were performed by the author (NYTL). This paper reviews this initial experience. Of the patients, 17.7% required blood transfusion of one unit each. The me...

Granulomatous Prostatitis (GnP) is a heterogenous entity classified into specific infections, non-specific infections, post surgical i.e. post-transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) and rare secondary (systemic) causes. A total of 1388 reports of prostatic biopsy and prostatic chips from TURP were reviewed from 1995 and 2007. The results which showed granulomatous prostatitis were analyzed ...

Introduction and objective: Circulatory shock affecting patients with the TURP syndrome has frequently been described but has usually been mistaken for hypovolaemic blood loss, cardiogenic or septicaemic shock. Here we report a prospective study that proves the patho-aetiology of the TURP syndrome is induced by volumetric overload. Patients and methods: A prospective study of 100 consecutive pa...

Many aspects of the immune system, including circulating cytokine levels as well as counts and function of various immune cell types, present circadian rhythms. Notably, the mortality rate of animals subjected to high doses of lipopolysaccharide is dependent on the time of treatment. In addition, the severity of symptoms of various inflammatory conditions follows a daily rhythmic pattern. The m...

BACKGROUND Traditional meta-analyses or systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been used to compare laser surgeries and transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) for benign prostate hyperplasia (BHP), but they cannot provide a hierarchy regarding efficacy and safety of treatment. OBJECTIVE We therefore performed a network meta-analysis (NMA) to compare and create ...

background: irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is a chronic functional bowel disorder that up to 20% of the population is suffering from it. also benign prostatic hyperplasia (bph) is a common problem that approximately 90 percent of men may be affected by this condition until the eighth decade of their life. prostatectomy as a surgery and pelvic intervention can cause ibs. methods: it was a case-c...