[Alternative therapy of benign prostatic hyperplasia--the Porges Urospiral]

In patients with benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) who could not be subjected to surgery because of an associated internal disease the authors ensured by a physical method-insertion of a urospiral-derivation of urine. In 15 patients they recorded favourable results (eradication of urinary infection, a satisfactory stream of urine, continence, complete evacuation of the urinary bladder). All patients improved greatly from the psychic aspect. Personal hygiene was also favourably influenced. Irritation caused by insertion of the urospiral disappeared within several days. Only in one patient the authors removed the urospiral after 6 days because of dysuria and partial incontinence. The authors' initial experience, extending over almost one year, in encouraging and the authors assume that this physical therapeutic method will be more widely applied in the risk patients, in particular patients in advanced age groups.