Prostate removal for enlarged prostate impacts many different parts of a man’s life such as:

• No longer spending money on prostate medication
• Stopping the frequent urination
• A stream that stops and starts when you want it to
• No more embarrassing urinary incontinence (urge incontinence)
• Getting a full nights rest
• Removing the risk of urine traveling back up to your kidneys and destroying them
• Removing the risk of acquiring a floppy bladder (loss of bladder muscle strength)
• Minimize acquiring diverticuli (small pockets) growing out of the walls of your bladder.
• Less urine left in your bladder after you urinate (residual urine).
• Having less sediment in your bladder that may cause urinary infection
• Stopping blood in urine (microhematuria) from occurring

Prostate Removal Treatments

Prostate removal is usually the last course of action that most men turn to in their efforts to remove the symptoms of their enlarged prostate. Initially men will try supplements that claim to reduce the size of their prostate or the symptoms of their prostate enlargement. Next they move on and visit their doctor/ urologist and then try some prescription medication to help relieve their large prostate symptoms. Many times the medicine will work; unfortunately the affect of the medicine doesn’t always last and the medicine may have side effects.

The next level of prostate enlargement treatments includes having out patient procedures at the urologists office that kill some of the cells of the prostate which blocks the flow of urine out of the bladder, causing urinary retention, which in turn causes frequent urination.

Radio frequency therapy is now available in the office of Dr Fernando J Bianco at Columbia University Division of Urology’s at Mount Sinai Medical Center on Miami Beach. The radio frequency therapy is a one time office visit therapy that destroys the prostate tissue that is blocking the urine from leaving the bladder which includes using a mild anesthetic.

Treatments that are performed in the operating room under anesthesia include a TUIP or transurethral incision of the prostate. The urologist makes some incisions in the bladder neck and the prostate to widen the opening to allow the urine to pass out of the bladder.

Another transurethral procedure that actually removes the part of the enlarged prostate that is blocking the urine is the TURP or transurethral resection of the prostate. This is an electrified (hot) wire loop that cuts the prostate tissue and seals the blood vessels. The urologist removes the obstructing tissue and then flushes it out of the bladder.

Dr. Alan Nieder uses lasers which vaporize the enlarged tissue which has the advantage of less bleeding. The latest iteration is the green light laser. 

Prostate removal, for the very large prostate is performed by Dr Bianco using robotic prostate surgery which clears out the excessively large prostate. Contact the office now to get the right solution for your benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) symptoms.

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