BPH andtestosterone.Testosterone is the main sex hormone in men and people assigned male at birth. This hormone acts on cells of the prostate and leads to the production of growth factors that make the prostate get bigger. As evidence of this effect, when men with prostate cancer take medici...
You may also need medicine that helps shrink, or slow the growth of your prostate. A procedure may be used to place a stent into your urethra to hold it open. A stent is a short, tiny mesh tube. A prostatic urethral lift, or UroLift, may be used to hold the prostate away from ...
Virginia has a master' degree in Education and a bachelors in Sports Medicine/athletic Training Benign prostatic hyperplasia is a medical condition that causes an enlargement of the prostate gland. This lesson will discuss this condition and its causes, symptoms and treatment options. ...
Medicinescan help decrease the size of your prostate, fight infection, and help you urinate more easily. Surgerymay be needed to treat the condition that is causing your urinary retention. Treatment options The following list of medications are related to or used in the treatment of this conditio...
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a condition caused by the proliferation of glandular epithelial cells in the prostate and occurs more commonly in intact dogs over five years old. It causes painful or strained urination with evidence of blood in the semen, urine or faeces. The authors carri...
Medicine has used acronyms for hundreds of years to describe clinical conditions. In urology the acronyms BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia), ED (erectile dysfunction), IC (interstitial cystitis) and AUR (acute urinary retention) are examples with which we are all familiar. Today we use acronyms ...
Shin et al. (24), in their study, examined the patient contentedness and savings and clinical results of televisits in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery at an urban educational center and identified that the patients reported a variety of savings, such as 88 (48.1%) of them s...
Medicine.Common treatments for BPH are alpha-blockers, which ease BPH symptoms, and what’s called 5-alpha reductase inhibitors, or 5-ARIs, which help shrink the prostate. Manypeople with an enlarged prostatetake them together. The FDA now requires labels on 5-ARIs to include a warning that...
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Health & Medicine Disorders and Treatment Reproductive system diseases What is benign prostatic hyperplasia? What are its clinical manifestations? How is it treated?Question:What is benign prostatic hyperplasia? What are its clinical manifestations? How is it treated?