Genealogy Projects tagged with benign prostate hyperplasia on the Geni Family Tree

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)

The first anatomically accurate description of prostatic enlargement as a cause of urinary retention is attributed to Morgagni (1769). Treatments in the 18th and early 19th centuries involved catherization and, if that failed, percutaneous bladder puncture to relieve the obstruction. The prostate gland is the reproductive organ only found in men, and It is responsible for creating and secreting...