Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The increase of voiding volume, average flow rate, and maximal flow rate in the EG were Benign prostate hyperplasia BPH is a common condition in men over 50 years of age.
BPH and prostate size increase continuously with age [ 1 ]. Sommer et al. The prevalence BPH is The symptoms of BPH includes obstructive symptoms of weak urinary stream force, hesitancy, intermittent, terminal dribbling and incomplete bladder emptying, and irritative symptoms of frequency, nocturia, and urgency.
These symptoms may affect quality of life [ 3 β 5 ]. It has been observed that prostate size does not correspond to the severity of obstruction and other symptoms [ 7 ]. This scores system, from 0 to 35, covers mild, moderate, and severe lower urinary symptoms, and includes seven questions relating to voiding and filling symptoms in the scoring system.
The IPSS is a sensible and reliable system clinically [ 8 ] and has been used widely in the clinic for the evaluation of the severity of lower urinary tract symptoms LUTS in patients with BPH [ 5 , 9 , 10 ].
Uroflowmetry is one of the simplest urodynamic methods and is noninvasive and, thus, plays a critical role in the assessment of obstructive LUTS in patients with BPH [ 11 ]. Uroflowmetry together with symptomatology constitute a reliable method for preoperative evaluation in patients with BPH [ 12 ]. That the maximum flow rate Qmax , average flow rate Qave , and volume of voided urine are lower in patients with BPH and that the total flow time and time to start voiding are longer than those of healthy men have been reported in a study using uroflowmetry [ 13 ].
