title: Incidence and outcome of surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia among residents of Rochester, Minnesota: 1980-87. A population-based study.
abstract: The incidence and outcome of surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) was studied in Rochester, Minnesota, during the period 1980-1987. Three hundred thirty Rochester men without a diagnosis of prostate or bladder cancer underwent prostatectomy for BPH for the first time. Mean and median ages were both seventy (range: 46-95). The incidence of initial prostatectomy for BPH among men forty-five years of age and older age-adjusted to the 1980 U.S. white male population was 642 cases per 100,000 persons per year (py). Among the 330 men undergoing initial prostatectomy for BPH, 14 (4.2%) had serious intraoperative complications, 32 (9.7%) were rehospitalized for urologic complications within thirty days of surgery, and 13 (3.9%) had other serious complications within thirty days after surgery, including 1 death (surgical mortality 0.3%). Forty-five patients (14%) required blood transfusions within thirty days of surgery. The likelihood of reoperation within six years of the initial surgery was 15.1 percent (95% CI 9.7, 20.6). Short- and long-term postoperative mortality was not statistically significantly different than expected based on age- and sex-specific mortality statistics for Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.affiliation: Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: W P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Stephenson
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Chute
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Guess
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lieber
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008910:Minnesota; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011470:Prostatic Hyperplasia / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D012086:Reoperation