Self-management for men with lower urinary tract symptoms

Treatment for men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) has developed into a “cascade” that escalates from watchful waiting through medical treatment to surgery. Self-management can help men to adopt lifestyle and behavioral modifications that will avoid or delay an escalation in treatment and re...

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Published inCurrent urology reports Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 261 - 266
Main Authors Brown, Christian T., Emberton, Mark
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Current Science Inc 01.07.2009
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Humans
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Nephrology
Prostatism - therapy
Self Care
Urology
Finasteride
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Overactive Bladder
Lower Urinary Tract Symptom
International Prostate Symptom Score
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Summary:Treatment for men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) has developed into a “cascade” that escalates from watchful waiting through medical treatment to surgery. Self-management can help men to adopt lifestyle and behavioral modifications that will avoid or delay an escalation in treatment and reduce symptoms. Although many of these interventions are advised to men with LUTS, it is usually in a nonstandardized and unsystematic way. Recent work in this area has defined a self-management program for men with uncomplicated LUTS using formal methods and assessed its effectiveness in a randomized controlled trial. Self-management significantly reduced the frequency of escalation through the treatment cascade and reduced urinary symptoms (as effective as medication), suggesting that self-management could be considered as first-line treatment for men with LUTS.
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ISSN:1527-2737
1534-6285
DOI:10.1007/s11934-009-0043-6