Current theraputic options for the treatment of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) are reviewed. Therapeutic options for mild lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), as defined by the American Urological Association, are generally treated medically. Moderate to severe LUTS can be treated medically or with surgical therapy. Current medical and surgical treatments for LUTS secondary to B...

Context: Recent insights into the pathophysiology of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) have led to the introduction of new concepts, such as postmicturition LUTS as a third category alongside voiding and storage LUTS; the consideration of the lower urinary tract as a functional unit, in view of the importance of the role of the bladder in LUTS; and the realization that the prevalence of LUTS ...

OBJECTIVE Although diabetes is known to result in lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in men, it remains unclear if glycemic control can mitigate urinary symptoms. We studied how diabetic characteristics are related to LUTS in the men who completed the urological assessment component (UroEDIC) of the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) follow-up study of the Diabetes...

Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) are frequently present in the general population as patients age with approximately a third of individuals experiencing LUTS during their lifetime. can be further defined having any following symptoms: urinary hesitancy, straining, nocturia, increased urination frequency, and dysuria. has potential for to contribute symptoms what normally occur we age. This l...

Introduction and Aim: International continence society mentions that more than 50 % of females suffer from lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) 90% them were not on any medication. LUTS is a term covers resulting conditions affecting the bladder urethra, prostate, other pelvic organs or part body which related to urethra anatomically. can be classified into 3 subcategories, i.e., storage (sympto...

conclusions in our study, the evidence is not enough to support the hypothesis of the relevance between ms and luts. wide-ranging, prospective and multicentric studies are needed to research the relevance between ms and luts in bph. patients and methods in this study, 237 patients referred to urology policlinic with bph were retrospectively scanned between april 2009 and april 2013. patients wi...

Mesenchymal tumors of the urinary bladder are a rare occurrence, the most common among them being leiomyoma of the bladder. These tumors commonly present with irritative urinary symptoms progressing gradually to obstructive symptoms as the size increases. We report on two patients who presented with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). One of the patients also had concomitant bladder and uterin...