[Practice of precocious diagnosis for prostate cancer among professors of the school of medicine, Minas Gerais Federal University- Brazil].

Background: The authors studied the practice of precocious diagnosis for prostate cancer among 289 professor-physicians of the School of Medicine, Minas Gerais Federal University, Brazil.

Methods: Replies on these preventive practices were received from 135 professor-physicians through a confidential questionnaire administered.

Results: Results show that 20.

The treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia with alpha blockers in men over the age of 80 years.

Objective: To determine the safety and efficacy of alpha blockade with doxazosin and terazosin in men over the age of 80 years with symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

Patients And Methods: Thirty-six men (mean age 83.6 years, SD 5.

Pseudodyssynergia (contraction of the external sphincter during voiding) misdiagnosed as chronic nonbacterial prostatitis and the role of biofeedback as a therapeutic option.

Purpose: Chronic lower urinary tract symptoms in young men are often attributed to misdiagnosed chronic nonbacterial prostatitis. We analyzed contraction of the external urinary sphincter during voiding (pseudodyssynergia) as an etiology of voiding dysfunction in men with misdiagnosed chronic prostatitis.

Materials And Methods: The video urodynamic studies of 43 men 23 to 50 years old with chronic voiding dysfunction secondary to pseudodyssynergia performed between January 1990 and June 1996 were retrospectively analyzed.

Electrovaporization of the prostate: electrosurgical modification of standard transurethral resection in 93 patients with benign hyperplasia.

To determine the safety and efficacy of transurethral vaporization of the prostate (TVP) in the management of men with lower urinary tract symptoms, we reviewed the records of 93 consecutive patients (mean age 65.2 +/- 5.7 years) with mild to moderate lower urinary tract symptoms who underwent TVP since August 1994.

Transurethral electrovaporization of the prostate: one-year experience.

Objectives: To determine the safety and efficacy of transurethral electrovaporization of the prostate (TVP) in men with lower urinary tract symptoms.

Methods: A prospective trial of 114 consecutive patients who underwent TVP since August 1994 was conducted. The mean follow-up period was 12.