Friday, March 28, 2008

BPH diagnosis?

As benign prostatic hyperplasia with age and sex characteristics, clinical diagnosis more easily, but if comprehensive and accurate understanding of the stage of benign prostatic hyperplasia and other issues that may exist, it must be carefully carried out the inspection can be confirmed. The main points are:
(1) more than 50-year-old middle-aged men.
(2) digital rectal examination, can scratch the surface smooth, texture medium hardness, shallow central sulcus or disappeared, length and width are increasing prostate.
(3) See ultrasound prostate volume and weight increased significantly.
(4) flow rate Inspection see maximal flow rate decreased significantly (it can accurately reflect the bladder detrusor contraction of the bladder and urethral pressure resistance status).
(5) Determination of residual urine bladder: the emergence of residual urine volume and objectively reflect the bladder voiding dysfunction, when residual urine over 60 ml, that has been in the decompensated detrusor state.
(6) urethral cystoscopy examination showed increasing prostate.
(7) Urinary X-ray, X-ray angiography and CT and MRI will help in the diagnosis of prostate hyperplasia, but not as needs to be inspected.

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