Stages of Wang and Foo for Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (BPH)

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Wang and Foo reported a staging system for benign prostate hyperpalasia (BPH), This can hellp to tailor treatment for the individual patients. The authors are from Chongqing Medical University and Singapore General Hospital.

Patient selection: male with benign prostate hyperplasia

Parameters:

(1) bothersome symptoms, with Quality of Life index> 3

(2) postvoid residual urine volume in mL

(3) complications (bladder stones, recurrent UTI, recurrent gross hematuria, gross retention)

Quality of Life	Postvoid Residual Volume	Complications	Stage
no bothersome symptoms	not significant (<= 100 mL)	no	I
bothersome symptoms	not significant	no	2
NA	significant (> 100 mL)	no	3
NA	NA	yes	4

Stage	Treatment
I	observed
2	pharmacotherapy first, then TURP if persistent
3	consider TURP
4	undergo TURP

In addition, thedegree of intravesical prostatic protrusion (IPP) was graded.

Protrusion	Grade
<= 5 mm	1
5.1 to 10 mm	2
> 10 mm	3

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Stages of Wang and Foo for Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (BPH)

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