Utilities of Intravesical Prostatic Protrusion and Peak Flow Rate Measurements as Clinical Tools in Diagnosis of Bladder Outlet Obstruction in A Community Setting

Background: Clinical diagnosis of cause of bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) is often difficult and decision on who and when to treat intriguing.Pressure flow studies are the main stay diagnostic tool but they are cumbersome, not readily available and expensive.Use of simpler modalities like ultrasound determination of intravesical prostatic protrusion (IPP) and uroflow-metric measurement of Peak flow rate (PFR), if found to correlate with clinical index of BOO such as International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) could make diagnosis of BOO easier in and outside the hospital setting.