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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

To Rezūm or Not to Rezūm: A Narrative Review of Water Vapor Thermal Therapy for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia.

Aris Kaltsas, Ilias Giannakodimos, Evangelos N Symeonidis, Dimitrios Deligiannis, Marios Stavropoulos, Asterios Symeonidis, Konstantinos Adamos, Zisis Kratiras, Andreas Andreou, Michael Chrisofos

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Real-world comparison of RezūmWorld journal of urology · 2026
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  10. Association between periodontal disease and prostate disease: a mini review.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Aris KaltsasThird Department of Urology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4651-312X
Ilias GiannakodimosThird Department of Urology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2267-8464
Evangelos N SymeonidisDepartment of Urology II, European Interbalkan Medical Center, 55535 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6360-0762
Dimitrios DeligiannisThird Department of Urology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Marios StavropoulosThird Department of Urology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Asterios SymeonidisDepartment of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-6164-1045
Konstantinos AdamosThird Department of Urology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Zisis KratirasThird Department of Urology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7281-3308
Andreas AndreouDepartment of Urology II, European Interbalkan Medical Center, 55535 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Michael ChrisofosThird Department of Urology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-1688-005X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

benign prostatic hyperplasiaIPSSlower urinary tract symptomsminimally invasive surgical therapiesprostate volumeQmaxretreatment rateRezūm therapysexual functionwater vapor thermal therapy

Identifiers

PMID40565999
PMCPMC12194174

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