Enlarged prostate

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; BPH; BPH Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; Enlarged Prostate/Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

For other uses of the acronym BPH, see BPH (disambiguation). Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) also known as Benign prostatic hypertrophy or Benign enlargement of the prostate (BEP) refers to the increase in size of the prostate in middle-aged and elderly men. To be accurate, the process is one of hyperplasia rather than hypertrophy, but the nomenclature is often interchangeable, even amongst urologists. In BPH, the prostate grows larger and presses against the urethra and bladder, int ...