What is Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)
BPH causes your prostate to increase in size. It’s the most common prostate problem in men and people assigned male at birth, affecting almost all of them as they age. Symptoms include difficulty peeing and a sudden need to pee. Treatment includes medications, surgery and minimally invasive procedures.
What are the warning signs of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia- Slowness or dribbling when you pee, Difficulty starting to pee, Leaking (incontinence), Sudden need to pee (urgency), Need to get up at night to pee, Inability to completely empty your bladder, Pain after ejaculating or while peeing, Your pee changes colour, Your pee smells.
How is benign prostatic hyperplasia diagnosed– Doctor to evaluate the severity of your symptoms, Urine flow test to measure the speed of your pee stream, Study to detect how much pee remains in your bladder after you have finished peeing, Cystoscopy to look into your bladder.
Management & Treatment – Medications, Surgery & Minimal invasive procedure (UroLift Therpy)
What is UROLIFT Therapy
The UroLift System treatment is a minimally invasive procedure to treat an enlarged prostate. It is a proven option for patients looking for an alternative to medications or major surgery. The only leading enlarged prostate procedure that does not require heating, cutting, or destruction of prostate tissue.
UroLift System Benefits– Patients have been shown to have a better recovery experience than TURP, with durable results and no new and lasting sexual dysfunction, Rapid relief and recovery in days, not months, Lowest catheter rate of the leading BPH procedures, The only leading BPH procedure that does not destroy tissue, Proven durability through five years, Real world outcomes largely consistent with randomised controlled data.
UROLIFT Delivery Device
The UroLift Delivery Device is inserted transurethrally through a rigid sheath under cystoscopic visualisation in order to reach the targeted area of obstruction. The obstructing prostatic lobes are retracted by small permanent UroLift Implants which are deployed via a needle that comes out of the delivery device. Each UroLift Delivery Device contains one UroLift Implant