Original scientific paper

Symptoms and Quality of Life in Patients with BPH

Tomislav Kuliš
Maja Gašparić
Maja Prižmić
Adela Kolumbić Lakoš
Željko Kaštelan

Abstract

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a chronic and progressive disease whose prevalence increases with age and seriously impairs the quality of life. Enlargement of the prostate and the consequent pressure on the urethra leads to the onset of BPH symptoms. Today we look at the symptoms of BPH through a wider group that is called lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Over 40% of visits to general urological outpatient clinic are associated with lower urinary tract symptoms. This inspired us to perform the cross-sectional survey of the epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of BPH in the Republic of Croatia. The study included 1364 patients and 50 urologists. The average patient age was 67.0 years. Of all the surveyed patients 646 or 49.2% were for the first time seen by the urologist. This paper presents the results and analysis of this survey.

Keywords

benign prostatic hyperplasia; BPH; LUTS; quality of life; survey; IPSS

Hrčak ID:

144640

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/144640

Publication date:

8.9.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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