The effects of dutasteride or tamsulosin alone and in combination on storage and voiding symptoms in men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH): 4-year data from the Combination of Avodart and Tamsulosin (CombAT) study.

Objective: • To assess the effects of combined therapy with dutasteride and tamsulosin on voiding and storage symptoms compared with those of dutasteride or tamsulosin alone, using 4-year data from the Combination of Avodart and Tamsulosin (CombAT) study.

Patients And Methods: • Men (n = 4844) aged ≥ 50 years with moderate-to-severe lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) due to benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH), a prostate volume of ≥ 30 mL, and a serum prostate-specific antigen level of 1.5-10 ng/mL.

Bladder blood flow and de-obstructive open prostatectomy: correlation with clinical and urodynamic parameters.

Purpose: To assess the relation between tissue blood flow changes during surgery with clinical and urodynamic parameters in obstructed patients.

Material And Methods: A prospective study was conducted in 18 symptomatic patients with bladder outlet obstruction undergoing retropubic prostatectomy. A symptom assessment and a preoperative urodynamic study were performed.

[Changes in frequency of external office visits for diseases. Analysis of trends in 6 years].

Introduction: In 1996 we made a rate frequency analysis of attended pathologies in extern office. Along these years, we have made different actuations about some pathologies like HBP and vasectomy.

Objectives: To know the results of these measures after 6 years, in 2002.

[Analysis of the delay in surgical treatment of adenocarcinoma of the prostate].

Introduction: The prostate cancer is an important cause of men's mortality in our society.

Purpose: To know the time of delay in to realise the surgical treatment of the prostate cancer.

Materials And Methods: Analysis of 30 cases of patients treated with radical prostatectomy, cuantifying the time of delay in all the periods of the process.

[Quality control plan for a primary bladder neoplastic process].

Objectives: Delays in the diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer may change survival rates (6). We present the application of a plan for quality control in the management of primary bladder cancer, studying delays globally, and for individual indicators, as well as the impact of implemented improvement measures.

Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review to detect problems appeared through the whole clinical management process in a population of patients undergoing surgery for primary bladder cancer in the Hospital Costa del Sol during 2001.