Study	Reason for exclusion
Albala 2000	Ineligible intervention (Variant technique: periurethral); cross‐over at 3 months with no interpretable outcome data.
Arai 2000	Prospective observational study comparing TUMT with other modalities.
Bagla 2017	Irrelevant study design (retrospective chart review for cost analysis).
Bilhim 2015	Letter to editor.
Brown 2018	Irrelevant study design (retrospective comparative study).
D'Ancona 1997	Observational non‐comparative study.
Dahlstrand 2003	Review article (full‐text assessment).
Djavan 1999	Ineligible comparison: TUMT ± neoadjuvant alpha‐blocker.
Gratzke 2018	Wrong study design: single arm study for prostatic urethral lift.
Hahn 2000	Observational study on cardiovascular complications of TUMT.
Hansen 1998	Methods paper on the symptoms scores. The TUMT data come from an observational study.
ISRCTN23921450	“Please note that this trial was terminated due to poor recruitment.”
Kobelt 2004	Economic data only from the Wagrell 2002 trial.
Lim 2011	Case series of a temporary nitinol device.
Mulvin 1994	Non‐randomized comparative study of TUMT and transurethral catheter therapy.
NCT01835860	Irrelevant study design (single group assignment).
Norby 2002b	Economic data only of the Nørby 2002a study.
Nørby 2004	Review article (full‐text assessment).
Ohigashi 2007	Prospective observational study comparing TUMT with other modalities.
Pereira 2018	Irrelevant study design (retrospective comparative study).
Porpiglia 2015	Single‐arm study of the first‐generation TIND device.
Porpiglia 2019	Single‐arm study of the second‐generation TIND device.
Qiu 2017	Irrelevant study design (retrospective comparative study).
Russo 2015	Irrelevant comparator (open simple prostatectomy).
Schelin 2006	Ineligible comparison: Compares TUMT to a group of participants that underwent TURP and enucleation surgery (no disaggregated data available).
Servadio 1987	Observational study of the use of TUMT for various diseases of the prostate.
Shore 2010	Ineligible comparison: Compared 2 similar energy TUMT systems that differed only by an adjunct balloon dilator.
Tan 2005	Long‐term follow‐up of the sham crossed‐over group. Ten out of 12 participants in the sham group had crossed over to the active treatment group and no disaggregated data were available for this group before crossing over.
Trock 2004	Pooled observational with previously extracted RCT data.
Vesely 2006	Non‐randomized comparative study: participants were assigned by severity to TUMT or TURP.
Waldén 1998	Economic data only on the Dahlstrand 1995 study.
Woo 2018	Wrong study design (educational lecture).
Yachia 1996	Non‐randomized comparison of two types of prostatic stents.
Zerbib 1992	Ineligible intervention: Transrectal hyperthermia.
Zerbib 1994	Ineligible intervention: Transrectal hyperthermia.