Your 50-Year-Old Male Patient Comes to the Clinic with a Complaint

Your 50-year-old male patient comes to the clinic with a complaint of hesitancy during voiding. After completing an appropriate history and physical, you diagnose him with benign prostatic hyperplasia. His American Urological Association (AUA) Symptom Index Score is less than seven. Your initial treatment plan should include:

A) Starting the patient on a low initial dose of an α-blocker
B) Referring the patient to urology for consideration of a transurethral resection of the prostate
C) Watchful waiting.
D) Starting the patient on a 5α-reductase inhibitor.