Observations on the epidemiology of benign prostatic hypertrophy at Nawabshah

ABSTRACT

In a retrospective study carried out at Surgical Unit II of Medical College Hospital, Nawabshar between 1980 to 1987 there were 661 patients of benign prostatic hypertrophy. These constituted 21% of all urological cases and about 6% of total admissions. Majority of cases i.e. 40% were seen in the fifties. About 11% cases had urinary calculi and 8% hernias in addition to BPH. Sixty two percent cases underwent transvesical prostatectomy with a perioperative mortality of 3.9%. The overall mortality in this series was 3.6%