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Research finds surgery outperforms drug therapy in treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia
Date:5/29/2010

common. By age 60, an estimated 50 percent of all men suffer from enlarged prostate symptoms; by age 90, about 80 percent do. Multiple treatments exist. But data comparing drug therapy to surgery are lacking, making clinical decisions vulnerable to subjective factors.

About the Study

From 1990 through 2007, the study enrolled 2,184 healthy men, age 40-79, living in Olmsted County, Minn., All participants completed surveys every other year about their urinary symptoms and the treatments they received. From this information, the investigators examined urinary problems and incontinence before and after different types of treatment.

Results showed that of the 2,184 men:

  • 1,574 (72%) received no treatment for BPH symptoms.
  • 307 (14%) took alpha adrenergic receptor blockers (α-ARs).
  • 195 (9%) took the medication 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors (ARIs).
  • 23 (1%) received surgical laser vaporization.
  • 85 (4%) received surgical transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP).

Comments Dr. Krambeck: "After intervention, the greatest improvement in symptom score was seen in the TURP group, followed by laser vaporization, then the drugs, 5 alpha reductase inhibitors and alpha adrenergic receptor blockers. Only the surgical TURP group reported a decrease in incontinence pre-TURP the incontinence rate was 64.5 percent and post-TURP it was 41.9 percent." This reduction in incontinence rates is significant when compared to the increase in reported incontinence in the patients receiving both forms of medical therapy and no change in symptoms for patients receiving laser vaporization.


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