Patient's question:
My father has benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and we need to urge him to go to the hospital for a check-up, but he always delays going. Can BPH go untreated?Doctor's answer:
If patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia do not receive timely and effective treatment, while new tissue continues to grow, old tissue continues to remain stiff, the proliferative tissue will increase, eventually compressing the urethral orifice of the bladder, leading to acute urinary retention. If it worsens further, it will compress the urethral orifice of the bladder, causing increased pressure in the bladder, leading to hydronephrosis, further progressing to renal failure and uremia. There may also be residual urine each time, leading to sedimentation and the formation of stones, as well as conditions such as prostate cancer.