The predictive value of intravesical prostatic protrusion on the outcome of trial without catheter in patients with acute urinary retention from benign prostatic hyperplasia at Jos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria: a prospective observational study.

Introduction: acute urinary retention represents a significant and painful event in the natural history of benign prostatic hyperplasia. This study was to determine the value of intravesical prostatic protrusion in predicting the outcome of trial without catheter in patients presenting with acute urinary retention from benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Methods: this was a prospective observational study carried out over a one-year period among 78 patients with acute urinary retention from benign prostatic hyperplasia who presented at the Accident and Emergency Department of Jos University Teaching Hospital.

Dorsal onlay buccal mucosa graft urethroplasty for bulbar urethral stricture: a single centre experience.

Introduction: the successful treatment for urethral strictures demands not just attention to surgical details but careful selection of the reconstructive technique. For long segment urethral strictures substitution urethroplasty is required. This study sought to determine the success rate and complications of dorsal onlay buccal mucosal graft (BMG) urethroplasty for long segment urethral strictures in our hospital.

Problems with administration of international prostate symptom score in a developing community.

Background: The IPSS form has been found useful for assessing symptom severity, which assists in treatment choice and in monitoring patients on therapy. The form should be self-administered and requires some level of literacy. We assessed the problems associated with its administration in a developing community.