Study of Clinical Evaluation of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Due to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Abstract

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a non-infectious (subconscious) enlargement of the prostate gland, usually found in older person. BPH can be differentiated from cancer of the prostate. Prostate cancer can cause BPH like symptoms, but is normally correlated with an rise in PSA and enlarged prostate on rectal inspection. It was a prospective observational longitudinal study conducted among 84 cases of LUTS due to BPH attending department of general surgery in a tertiary health-care centre during December 2016 to June 2018. Patients diagnosed to have LUTS due to BPH were assessed according to IPSS questionary. Majority of the cases with BPH in our study belonged to age group of 61-70 years(42.85%), We calculated IPS Score according to clinical presentation of cases. We observed 60.71% cases of moderate symptomatic IPS Score, followed
by 39.28% cases with severe symptomatic IPS Score. There is no direct proved one to one correlation between prostatic volume and severity of LUTS