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. 2023 Dec;83(16):1529-1536.
doi: 10.1002/pros.24611. Epub 2023 Aug 21.

Histologic inflammation and collagen content are not positively correlated in human BPH

Andrew J Schneider  1 , Emily C Serrell  1 , Matthew Grimes  1 , Sijian Wang  2 , Wade Bushman  1
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Histologic inflammation and collagen content are not positively correlated in human BPH

Andrew J Schneider et al. Prostate. 2023 Dec.

Abstract

Introduction: Recent clinical studies have implicated prostate inflammation and fibrosis in the development of bladder outlet obstruction and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Studies utilizing rodent models, including work in our laboratory, have shown prostate fibrosis to occur as a consequence of inflammation. However, the relationship between collagen content and inflammation in human tissue samples obtained from surgical treatment of benign prostatic hypererplasia (BPH)/LUTS has not to our knowledge been previously examined.

Methods: Prostate tissue specimens from 53 patients (ages 47-88, mean 65.1) treated by open simple prostatectomy or transurethral resection of the prostate for BPH/LUTS were stained to quantitatively assess prostate inflammation and collagen content. Patients with prostate cancer present in greater than 5% of the surgical specimen were excluded. Prostate volume was determined from pelvic CT scan obtained within 2 years of surgery.

Results: Analysis of the data showed that inflammation was inversely correlated with collagen content (r = -0.28, p = 0.04). In men with prostates less than 75 cm3 inflammation increases and collagen content decreases with prostate volume (p = 0.002 and p = 0.03, respectively) while in men with prostate volume over 75 cm3 inflammation decreases and collagen content increases with prostate volume (p = 0.30 and p = 0.005, respectively).

Conclusions: Our data do not support the assumed positive association of prostate inflammation with collagen content. Coordinated analysis of scatter plots of inflammation and collagen content with prostate volume revealed a subset of prostates with volumes >50 cm3 prostate characterized by intense inflammation and low collagen content and it is this subgroup that appears most responsible for the inverse correlation of inflammation and collagen.

Keywords: BPH; fibrosis; inflammation.

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