was asked, has the elderly suffering from benign prostatic hyperplasia, frequent urination at night, especially during the winter months, feel distressed. Would like to ask the experts, the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia? Do you need to be operated on?
Professor of Beijing Chaoyang hospital urology department director Chen: alone in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia, and clinical use of medications, avoiding the effects of surgery to patients as possible. In fact, most of the aging male are . essentially benign prostatic hyperplasia, but some do not show obvious symptoms. Only appeared because of delayed treatment of urinary retention, recurrent urinary tract infection, hematuria, bladder stones, kidney insufficiency or renal failure, serious indications of the drugs effectiveness is not recommended that you only select operation.
Beijing hospital Urology Professor Wan Ben, Director: only about patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia in clinical 20%~30% surgery needs to be done. Due to high costs of general surgery for treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (usually in the million or so), so medications should be priorities of doctor and patient treatment options.
branch of Chinese society of Andrology, the people’s Hospital, Chairman of Urology physician Professor Zhu JI-chuan: current clinical treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia is mainly made of vigilance waiting, surgical treatment and drug therapy. For some lighter symptoms, patients with prostatic smaller vigilant observation to be taken and checked on a regular basis once the disease progression, you will need active treatment. Mainly applies to the symptom of surgical treatment in patients with serious, but there are certain risks, in particular, and older patients with cardiovascular disease, and patients need to put up with a strong sense of pain. Drug treatment can alleviate the symptoms, especially applies to the symptom was not very serious and is not suitable for surgery patients. Because drug treatment has advantages such as safe, easy, painless, clinical control and therefore is the best choice for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
links: benign prostatic hyperplasia is the area around the urethra prostate benign adenoma cells proliferation, research has shown that patients with a substance called dihydro testosterone is the main cause. Benign prostatic hyperplasia is the common diseases of middle-aged and elderly men, and frequently occurring illnesses, clinical statistics show that during the 40-79, about 50% incidence of benign prostatic hyperplasia, 80 per cent of men the incidence up to 80%. In patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia is not only seriously affected the quality of life, but also easier to induce a variety of potential complications: such as acute urinary retention, urinary tract infection, gross hematuria, stones, hydronephrosis, and renal failure, etc.
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