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DIFFERENTIATING OAB FROM MALE LOWER URINARY

TRACT SYMPTOMS (LUTS)

Presenting Symptom OAB Male LUTS
Frequency Yes Yes

Urgency Yes Yes
Nocturia Often Yes
WISE Weak stream No Yes

symptoms Incomplete emptying No Yes
Presence of Straining/hesitancy No Yes
one or more
could indicate a Elevated PSA No Occasionally
prostate-related Pain No No
condition
Dysuria No No

Pyuria No No
Gross hematuria No Rare

BPH = benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Male LUTS often overlap with symptoms of OAB.

But OAB can also exist on its own.

Nitti V, Taneja S. Int J Clin Pract. 2005;59:825-830; Prostate Cancer Canada Network: Prostate Cancer Symptoms; Prostate Cancer Canada Network, Non-Cancerous Conditions: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; Nickel et al. Can Urol Assoc J 2010;4(5):310-316.