Prostate Cancer

Enlarged Prostatic Hyperplasia or BPH can be treated through medicines, heat therapy, stent, herbal remedies, and surgery. Medicines need to be taking daily at a specific moment; heat therapy uses microwaves, laser or electric current destroying the tissue in excess; the stent is a short tube inserted in the urethra; herbal remedies are very common nowadays but not so sure. The operation called TURP is a viable option. The surgery it’s the best solution in the most of the cases and it’s considered the best long term solution for the relief of the symptoms, and most of the surgical procedures involve removing the enlarged part of prostate which clenches the urethra.

Surgery or TURP is a viable method, performed under anesthetic, so the operation will be painless. The surgery can be make under anesthetic or without it, and involves few days of hospitalization. The surgery is made to remove the part of prostate which is enlarged and constrict the urethra. It’s made only in some cases.

The cases which imply surgery are not so many. Some of the cases which are making the surgery the most viable method are the bleeding of the urethra, damages of the kidneys, frequent urinary tract infections, inability to urinate, or the stones from the bladder. The surgery takes less than 90 minutes and patients will stay in hospital around 3 days. The surgery it’s not complicated.

During the surgery the tissue which is obstructing urethra is removed. The surgeon inserts a resectoscope with valves for the control of the irrigating fluid, into the penis, through urethra removing the obstructing tissue and carry irrigating fluids to bladder. A recent alternative treatment is green light laser photo selective vaporization of the prostate or PVP, advantages of this being less bleed and less damage, and no such many complications. After surgery a catheter is inserted to ensure the emptying of the bladder, the urine will be monitories; it’s cleansing the surgical area. In the surgery can appear complications and the patient need to recover following some instructions.

After the surgery, some of the complications are hematuria or the existence in urine of the blood, bleeding after surgery has to be reported to the medic immediately, discomfort and the need to urinate, difficulty in urination controlling, recovery of sexual function will take a year, after a year can appear dry climax, in some cases appears sterility, incontinence, impotence, ejaculatory dysfunction, a pain after anesthetics, dehydration prevented by drips, the urinary catheter can provide awkward sensations. A full recovery takes four or five weeks after the surgery, but after these periods the patient will have to avoid heavy work or strenuous activity a while, should abstain from sexual activities six weeks after the surgery.

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