Abstract:Medical therapy for relief of symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is now a clinical reality. The challenge for urologists treating BPH with medical therapy is how to rationally employ the two proven classes of medications, the alpha blockers and ®nasteride, in their practice. To accomplish this, we must critically examine the results of multiple important clinical BPH trials published over the last decade and examine the short and long term effect of the various available medical therapies on sympto… Show more
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