1999
DOI: 10.1038/sj/pcan/4500293
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High energy transurethral thermotherapy in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia: criteria to predict treatment outcome

Abstract: In this study we analyzed the individual value of baseline parameters to predict the outcome of high energy transurethral microwave thermotherapy in the treatment of patients with lower urinary tract symptoms and benign prostatic hyperplasia.Two hundred and forty-seven patients with symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia were treated with high energy microwave thermotherapy using the software 2.5 (Prostatron). Mean age at the time of treatment was 66.3 (s.d. 8.2) y, the mean prostate volume 57.0 (s.d. 25.2) … Show more

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“…A recent study by d’Ancona et al . [ 17] using multivariate analyses on a large cohort of patients treated with HE‐TUMT, confirmed the predictive value of urodynamic obstruction at baseline, but also showed other strongly predictive baseline variables, i.e. the amount of energy applied, the patient’s age and prostate volume.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 69%
“…A recent study by d’Ancona et al . [ 17] using multivariate analyses on a large cohort of patients treated with HE‐TUMT, confirmed the predictive value of urodynamic obstruction at baseline, but also showed other strongly predictive baseline variables, i.e. the amount of energy applied, the patient’s age and prostate volume.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 69%
“…A multivariate logistic regression analysis performed previously showed that four variables at baseline (age, prostate volume, obstruction grade and TUMT energy) were independently predictive of a response to HE‐TUMT using the clinical research criteria at 26 weeks of follow‐up [ 11]. The combination of age, TUMT energy and prostate volume gave a good fit in predicting a good response of the IPSS.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…All patients provided written informed consent before participating, after a verbal explanation and reading an explanatory leaflet. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were as described previously [ 11].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A large protruding prostate middle lobe is contraindicated, but limits towards maximum prostate for treatment are not yet set. In contrast, the bigger prostates do very well [17,20 ]. On the other hand, until recently the minimal prostatic urethral length needed for a safe treatment was 3.5 cm.…”
Section: Transurethral Thermotherapymentioning
confidence: 81%
“…Although outflow-obstruction is not an inclusion criterion, patients with a higher degree of outflow-obstruction and patients with a high IPSS score at baseline are better responders to the therapy [17][18][19]. A large protruding prostate middle lobe is contraindicated, but limits towards maximum prostate for treatment are not yet set.…”
Section: Transurethral Thermotherapymentioning
confidence: 94%