[Benign prostate syndrome].

Abstract

If variable bladder storage and/or voiding symptoms occur due to or in combination with a benign enlargement of the prostate, together with various etiological, pathological and pathophysiological changes in the lower urinary tract, this is referred as benign prostate syndrome. Comprehensive diagnostics are essential in order to provide treatment that is appropriate to the symptoms and the patient's level of suffering. If differential diagnostic diseases can be ruled out, conservative and medicinal treatment approaches, such as watchful waiting, phytotherapy or various synthetic chemical preparations as well as surgical procedures, such as transurethral techniques, suprapubic adenoma enucleation (simple prostatectomy) and prostate artery embolization are available for patients.