Management of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia--today.

Symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is one of the commonest causes today of men presenting with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). We can find this in 50% of men over the age of fifty. If BPH is not treated, then one can expect that the disease will progress in a significant number of individuals. What we need to do is try to predict based on certain baseline parameters such as International Prostate Score (IPSS), prostate volume,...