1. The industrial revolution for the management of benign prostate obstruction: worldwide publication trends for surgical and medical therapies over the past two decades
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Bhavan Prasad Rai, Patrick Jones, Jeremy Nettleton, Laurian Dragos, Marcus J. Drake, Amelia Pietropaolo, Domenico Veneziano, Bhaskar K. Somani, and Robert Geraghty
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Laser surgery ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,030232 urology & nephrology ,Urology ,5-alpha reductase inhibitor ,alpha blockers ,Resection ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,systematic review ,Prostate ,Lower urinary tract symptoms ,Medicine ,lower urinary tract symptoms ,minimally invasive surgery ,Review Paper ,benign prostatic hyperplasia ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Greenlight laser ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,benign prostatic obstruction ,Alpha blocker ,business ,Benign prostate ,Systematic search - Abstract
Introduction Research for management of benign prostate obstruction (BPO) for adult males remains a cornerstone of urology research. This landscape has witnessed the rise and fall of multiple therapies, both surgical and medical. Our aim was to formally evaluate the publication trends for these interventions over the past 20 years. Material and methods A systematic search was performed in a Cochrane style. Data was analysed using the independent t-test and Pearson's correlation coefficient (SPSS version 24). To observe changes in trends more effectively, data was sub-divided into two time periods: 1997 to 2006 and 2007 to 2016. Results Over the past 20 years, 4236 papers have been published concerning for BPO (surgical, n = 2177 and medical, n = 2059). For surgical treatments, these included articles on monopolar transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) (n = 340), bipolar TURP (n = 260), HoLEP (n = 293) and Greenlight laser (n = 395). For medical therapies, these included alpha blockers (848), 5-alpha reductase inhibitors (n = 618) and PDE5I (n = 91). Between the two time periods the change was +18.8% (p = 0.108) for monopolar TURP, +497.1% (
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- 2019
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