Early Versus Late Catheter Removal in Patients With Acute Urinary Retention Secondary to BPH Under Tamsulosin Treatment

Salem Hassan Salem Mohamed

Status: Completed

Conditions: BPH With Urinary Obstruction

Treatments: Procedure: Early catheter removal; Procedure: Late catheter removal

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03280420

123urology

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this work is to compare between early (3days) and late(7days) removal of urinary catheter after acute urine retention in patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia under Tamsulosin treatment.

Full description

This is a prospective randomized study, Men with acute urinary retention secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia were catheterized and then, if they fulfilled the entry criteria, were randomly assigned to receive 0.4 mg tamsulosin hydrochloride for three days or seven days, After that the catheter was removed and the ability to void unaided assessed.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Male

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients having first attack of acute urinary retention secondary to BPH.

Exclusion criteria

• Renal impairment.
• Suspected urethral stricture.
• Neurogenic bladder.
• Cancer prostate.
• Medically induced retention.
• Previous use of alpha blockers.
• History of drug hypersensitivity or allergy to Tamsulosin.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

early catheter removal

Active Comparator group

Description:

30 patients will receive Tamsulosin hydrochloride 0.4 mg once daily and the catheter will be removed after 3 days.

Treatment:

Procedure: Early catheter removal

late catheter removal

Active Comparator group

Description:

30 patients will receive Tamsulosin hydrochloride 0.4 mg once daily and the catheter will be removed after 7 days.

Treatment:

Procedure: Late catheter removal