Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 7, 2025

Ultrasonography of the Adult Male Urinary Tract for Urinary Functional Testing
Published on: August 14, 2019
The effect of systemic hypertension on prostatic artery resistive indices in patients with benign prostate
Stephen O Onigbinde1, Christianah M Asaleye2, Abdulkadir A Salako3
1Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, St George's University, Grenada.
Background:
To investigate the effect of systemic hypertension on the prostatic artery resistive indices by a comparative ultrasonographic evaluation of the prostate gland in normotensive and hypertensive patients with benign prostatic enlargement (BPE).
Materials And Methods:
The participants had BPE and presented at the outpatient urologic clinic of a tertiary hospital. They were divided into normotensive and hypertensive groups. Each group had fifty patients. Calculation of international prostate symptom score, measurement of blood pressure, and transrectal ultrasonographic evaluation were done.
Results:
The mean age for the normotensive and hypertensive groups were 66.9 ± 9.8 and 66.0 ± 10.7 years, respectively (P = 0.662). Patients with hypertensive BPE had a significantly higher mean transitional zone volume, transitional zone index, presumed circle area ratio, quality of life score, and prostatic arterial resistive indices than the age-matched normotensive BPE patients.
Conclusion:
Patients with BPE and with hypertension had significantly higher prostate arteries resistive indices than normotensives with BPE. Even in patients with BPE and controlled hypertension, the prostatic artery resistance indices were still elevated than that of normotensive men with BPE.
Related Concept Videos
Hypertension II: Pathophysiology
Antihypertensive Drugs: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System
Raynaud's disease, also known as Raynaud's...
Antihypertensive Drugs: Vasodilators
Hypertension III: Clinical Manifestations and Diagnostic Studies
Hypertension and Regulation of Blood Pressure

