Prostate enlargement generally refers to prostate hyperplasia, patients can follow the doctor’s prescription of medication, surgical treatment, but also other treatments.
1. Medication: Patients with prostate enlargement can usually take α-blockers such as doxazosin, terazosin, tamsulosin, and 5α-reductase inhibitors such as finasteride and dutasteride as prescribed by the doctor.
In addition, M-receptor antagonists such as tolterodine and solifenacin can reduce bladder sensitivity, thus improving the symptoms of urinary frequency and urgency caused by prostatic hyperplasia.
2. Surgery: For patients with prostatic hyperplasia who are not well treated with medication. Clinical common surgical methods include transurethral resection of the prostate, open prostatectomy, transurethral plasma enucleation of the prostate and so on.
3. Other treatments: such as minimally invasive prostate suspension and expansion, prostate artery embolization, prostate stenting, intraprostatic injections and so on.
It is recommended that people with enlarged prostate should choose the appropriate treatment according to their own condition and cooperate with the doctor, and should not use medication indiscriminately on their own.