Which term describes symptoms resulting from urethral obstruction due to benign prostatic hypertrophy?

Which term describes symptoms resulting from urethral obstruction due to benign prostatic hypertrophy?

• A. Prostatitis
• B. Prostatism
• C. Prostate Cancer
• D. Urethrostenosis

Answer: (B)

Prostatism describes the symptom cluster that results when the urethra is obstructed by an enlarged prostate from benign prostatic hyperplasia. As the prostate grows around the prostatic urethra, outflow is narrowed, so urination requires more effort and the stream weakens. This leads to a set of urinary symptoms such as a weak or intermittently strong stream, hesitancy or straining, a feeling of incomplete bladder emptying, increased frequency, urgency, and nocturia. These signs are characteristic of obstruction from BPH rather than inflammation, cancer, or a urethral narrowing. Prostatitis involves inflammation and often pain or fever; prostate cancer can cause obstruction but isn’t defined by this specific symptom pattern; urethrostenosis is a narrowing of the urethra itself, not the obstruction produced by the prostate.

Prostatism describes the symptom cluster that results when the urethra is obstructed by an enlarged prostate from benign prostatic hyperplasia. As the prostate grows around the prostatic urethra, outflow is narrowed, so urination requires more effort and the stream weakens. This leads to a set of urinary symptoms such as a weak or intermittently strong stream, hesitancy or straining, a feeling of incomplete bladder emptying, increased frequency, urgency, and nocturia. These signs are characteristic of obstruction from BPH rather than inflammation, cancer, or a urethral narrowing. Prostatitis involves inflammation and often pain or fever; prostate cancer can cause obstruction but isn’t defined by this specific symptom pattern; urethrostenosis is a narrowing of the urethra itself, not the obstruction produced by the prostate.