upfront pharmacotherapy (i.e., α‐blocker, 5α‐reductase inhibitor, or combination) followed by surgery (e.g. TURP or GL ‐ PVP ) upon failure vs TURP or GL ‐ PVP as initial treatment, for a target population of men with moderate‐to‐severe BPH symptoms, with a mean age of 65?
Other side effects includemore erections than are normal for you or erections that last a long time. Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of ANDRODERM. ...
There were 547 men receiving finasteride tablets, 1 mg for both the initial study and first extension periods (up to 2 years of treatment) and 60 men receiving placebo for the same periods. The extension studies were continued for 3 additional years, with 323 men on finasteride tablets, 1 m...
When Testosterone Gel 1% treatment is discontinued after achieving steady state, serum testosterone concentrations remain in the normal range for 24 to 48 hours but return to their pretreatment concentrations by the fifth day after the last application. ...
(1) patients who had received any PCa treatment such as androgen deprivation therapy, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or any type of prostate surgery before68Ga-PSMA-617 PET/CT or mpMRI; and (2) patients for whom there was histologically proven diagnosis of PCa. Sixty-seven ...
On the other hand, TUR-P brings remarkable improvement in voiding and storage symptoms, increase of flow rate and reduction of residual urine as a gold-standard surgical treatment for BPH. Urge incontinence and uninhibited detrusor contraction on cystometry reportedly disappeared in 60% of patients ...
Results All options involving an upfront pharmacotherapy followed by TURP for those fail were economically unattractive compared to strategies involving a GL㏄VP for those who fail and compared to using either BPH surgery as initial treatment. Overall, upfront TURP was the most costly and effective...
Lee SH;Chung BH;Kim SJ;.Initial combined treatment with anticholinergics and a-blockers for men with lower urinary tract symptoms related to BPH and overactive bladder:a prospective,randomized,multi-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis.2011.320-325...
To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of using a surgery, such as transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) or photoselective vaporisation of the prostate using greenlight laser (GL-PVP), as initial treatment for men with moderate-to-severe benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) compared to the ...
First-line treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms related to benign prostatic hyperplasia (LUTS/BPH) is with ±-adrenoceptor antagonists; the newer agents (alfuzosin and tamsulosin) have a better tolerability profile than the older drugs (doxazosin and terazosin). 5±-Reductase inhibitors (...