The present study shows a relatively good long-term persistence rate with mirabegron in overactive bladder patients, notwithstanding the retrospective study in an academic hospital. The combined treatment with antimuscarinics could result in a good persistence rate with mirabegron.
Objectives: To investigate if uroflowmetry (UFM) curve patterns could differentiate between detrusor underactivity (DU) and bladder outlet obstruction (BOO).Methods: A hundred consecutive data sets of male patients who were evaluated using UFM and invasive urodynamics (pressure flow study) were retrospectively collected. DU and BOO were diagnosed according to the bladder contractility index and BOO index. The UFM curve with two or more notches was defined as sawtooth pattern, and the interrupted pattern was defined if several curves with interruptions reducing to zero were noted. We also compared other UFM parameters including maximum and average flow rates (Qmax and Qave), voiding time, time to Qmax, the slope to first peak flow, the number of notches on the curve (sawtooth pattern), the number of curves (interrupted pattern), and the maximum drop on the sawtooth pattern.Results: Twenty-five and forty-nine patients were categorized in the BOO group and the DU group, respectively. The incidence of sawtooth pattern was significantly higher in the DU group (57%) than in the BOO group (32%), while the incidence of interrupted pattern was not different between the two groups (36% in the BOO group and 49% in the DU group). There were significant differences in age (area under the curve = 0.75), prostatic volume (0.67), the slope to first peak flow (0.58), the number of notches on the curve (0.61), and the maximum drop (0.76) between the two groups.
Conclusions:The sawtooth UFM pattern is more common in patients with DU than in those with BOO. New parameters on UFM curve patterns could be helpful to evaluate DU and BOO without invasive urodynamics.
Objectives
To examine the long‐term outcomes of transurethral resection of the prostate.
Methods
We retrospectively collected the data of patients who had undergone transurethral resection of the prostate before December 2010. Patients had been evaluated by urodynamics and the International Prostate Symptom Score preoperatively, and they were re‐evaluated by using the International Prostate Symptom Score at the minimum 7 years after transurethral resection of the prostate. Patients who received any treatments to improve voiding symptoms were defined as having a relapse of voiding dysfunction. The Schäfer nomogram was used to assess the degree of obstruction and detrusor contractility. We assessed the change in International Prostate Symptom Score over time depending on obstruction (Schäfer grade 3–6) versus no obstruction (Schäfer grade 0–2), and normal detrusor contractility (strong and normal) versus detrusor underactivity (weak and very weak). Relapse rates of voiding dysfunction were determined using the Kaplan–Meier method.
Results
A total of 39 patients were included. The mean age at transurethral resection of the prostate was 69.8 years, and the mean observation period after transurethral resection of the prostate was 114 months. During the observation period, eight patients (21%) were categorized as relapse of voiding dysfunction and the mean time to relapse was 4.2 years. Patients categorized as no obstruction or detrusor underactivity had a higher recurrence rate of voiding dysfunction with a statistical significance between those with versus without obstruction. Except for patients with relapse of voiding dysfunction, improvement of the International Prostate Symptom Score was maintained over a period of 10 years after transurethral resection of the prostate.
Conclusions
Favorable long‐term symptomatic outcome after transurethral resection of the prostate is likely in patients with urodynamic obstruction. Patients without urodynamic obstruction are likely to have a relapse of voiding symptoms and require additional treatments in the long term.
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