Jul 26, 2021

Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are frequently reported by constipated patients. Prospective studies investigating the association between defecatory disorders (DDs) and voiding dysfunction, predo...

Jul 26, 2021

Among various treatment options for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), surgical therapy is the most invasive. As Switzerland has the highest transurethral prostatectomy rate among OECD countries, we ...

Jul 22, 2021

Little is known about how benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) develops and why patients respond differently to medical therapy designed to reduce lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). The Medical Therap...

Jul 22, 2021

The homeobox family is a large and diverse superclass of genes, many of which act as transcription factors that play important roles in tissue differentiation and embryogenesis in animals. The brown p...

Jul 22, 2021

Patients nowadays often search video-sharing platforms for online patient education materials. Since previous assessments of urological videos were limited to English, we systematically assessed the q...

Jul 19, 2021

To assess the distinctiveness of serum native thiol (NT), total thiol (TT) and disulfide (SS) levels in PCa patients, we created a new parameter, prostate thiol index (PTI) [tPSA (TTxPVxAge) ]. We de...

Jul 19, 2021

Finasteride (FND) is a competitive inhibitor of 5α-reductase, an enzyme involved in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and androgenic alopecia. FND is administered in oral, often lifelong treatments,...

Jul 19, 2021

The programmed death 1 (PD-1)/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) have shown positive efficacy in several solid cancers due to their targeted antitumour effects. However, the frequency and clinical impl...

Jul 12, 2021

Total testosterone levels decline with age, while prostate volume and the prevalence of benign prostatic hyperplasia increase with age. We sought to investigate the correlation of serum testosterone l...

Jul 12, 2021

To explore the value of combining dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) quantitative parameters with apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values in the diagnosis of prostate c...

Jul 08, 2021

The aim of this study was to investigate the inhibitory effect of heat-killed () and live on benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The BPH rat model was established by administering male rats with tes...

Jul 08, 2021

The aim of the study is to investigate the effects of glutathione S-transferase P1 (GSTP1) gene polymorphism and metabolic syndrome (MS) on lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) attributed to benign pro...

Jul 08, 2021

To determine if patients were obtaining opioids after HoLEP from other sources - despite our opioid-free postoperative pathway - we utilized a national prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) to r...

Jul 05, 2021

Bladder neck contracture (BNC) is a bothersome complication following endoscopic treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The objective of our study was to give a more realistic insight into ...

Jul 05, 2021

To evaluate and provide a comprehensive literature review of Prostate specific antigen (PSA) dynamics after various surgical procedures for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).A thorough PubMed databas...

Jul 05, 2021

Dysfunctional voiding (DV), a voiding dysfunction due to hyperactivity of the external urethral sphincter or pelvic floor muscles leading involuntary intermittent contractions during voiding, is not u...

Jun 28, 2021

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia / Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction (BPH/LUTD) is a classic disease of aging which affects nearly all men. Symptoms typically present in the fifth or sixth decade and progre...

Jun 28, 2021

Mating triggers physiological and behavioral changes in female insects. In many species, females experience postmating behavioral and physiological changes that define a post-mated state. These change...

Jun 24, 2021

To assess the impact of nocturnal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) on lower urinary tract (LUTS) symptoms.A prospective, monocentric study was cond...

Jun 24, 2021

Trichomoniasis is a sexually transmitted infectious disease caused by a flagellated protozoa, Trichomonas vaginalis (T.vaginalis) and is often asymptomatic in men. Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) a...