NCT02051036

Moxibustion as an Adjuvant for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia With Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms: a Pilot Study

A Pilot Study on Effectiveness and Safety of Moxibustion for Benign Prostate Hyperplasia With Lower Urinary Tract Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: JUNGNAM KWON · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to explore the feasibility of moxibustion as a supplementary intervention and to assess the sample size for verifying the effectiveness and safety of integrative treatment involving moxibustion compared with conventional treatment for patients with benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) accompanying moderate to severe lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS).

Detailed description

Patients who diagnosed as BPH with moderate to severe LUTS aged 20 to 80 years old will be divided into two groups, one is moxibustion plus conventional therapy group and the other is conventional therapy group. Patients who belong to moxibustion plus conventional therapy group will be treated moxibustion for eight times by a Korean Medicine doctor with conventional therapy by a urologist. Patients who belong to conventional therapy group will be treated with conventional therapy only, and they can receive moxibustion therapy after the clinical trial is finished. IPSS, post void residual volume (PVR) and peak urine flow (Qmax) will be checked to evaluate the effectiveness and safety.

Conditions

• BPH
• Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
• Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
• Lower Urinary Tract Symptom

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Moxibustion	In the moxibustion treatment group, 5 moxibustion points (bilateral SP6, LV3 and unilateral CV4) will be heated with indirect moxibustion (KangHwa, Korea). The moxa pillars will be removed when the patient feel hotness and require to remove them. The moxibustion will be conducted repeatedly unless patients feel the sense of heat up to seven times per session.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-02-01
• Primary completion: 2015-12-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2014-01-31
• Last updated: 2019-04-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea