BPH

What is BPH?

BPH, or benign prostatic hyperplasia, is a common condition in which the prostate gland grows as men get older. This condition can lead to bladder obstruction resulting in slow urine flow, incomplete bladder emptying and frequent nighttime voiding among other symptoms.

Click below to take the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) quiz, a validated, reproducible scoring system to assess disease severity and response to therapy, to see how severe your urinary symptoms are.

Treatment options.

Treatment for for BPH typically starts with medications to either relax the prostate (alpha-blockers such as tamsulosin) or shrink the prostate (5-ARIs such as finasteride).

If medical management is not successful, there are many surgical options including, but not limited to:

• TURP (Transurethral Resection of the Prostate) - The gold standard for BPH where excess prostate tissue is removed with an electrified loop.

• UroLift® - A minimally invasive procedure to compress the enlarged prostate (click here to learn more).

• Water vapor thermal therapy (Rezūm®) - uses water vapor to ablate prostatic tissue (click here to learn more).

• Photovaporization of the prostate (PVP) - Similar to TURP, PVP removes excess prostatic tissue with heat energy from a laser rather than an electrified loop.

• HoLEP (Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate) - Excellent particularly for very large prostates (>100 grams), HoLEP removes a large volume of prostate tissue in a minimally invasive fashion. (click here to learn more).

• Simple prostatectomy - Excellent for very large prostates (>100 grams), simple prostatectomy removes a large volume of prostate tissue with more traditional surgical methods.