BPH Outcome
| Direct Treatment Outcomes | Baloon Dilation | TUIP | Open Surgery | TURP | Watchful Waiting | Alpha Blockers | Finasteride |
| 1. Chance for improvement of symptoms (90% confidence interval) | 37-76% | 78-83% | 94-99.8% | 75-96% | 31-55% | 59-86% | 54-78% |
| 2. Degree of symptom improvement (percent reduction in symptom score) | 51% | 73% | 79% | 85% | Unknown | 51% | 31% |
| 3. Morbidity/complications associated witd class=”bodyText”surgical or medical treatment (90% confidence interval), about 20% of all complications assumed to be significant | 1.78-9.86% | 2.2-33.3% | 6.98-42.7% | 5.2-30.7% | 1-5% complications from BPH progression | 2.9-43.3% | 13.6-18.8% |
| 4. Chance of dying within | 0.72-9.78% | 0.2-1.5% | 0.99-4.56% | 0.53-3.31% | 0.8% chance of death |
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