The benefits of laser surgery vs TURP for BPH treatment vary among patients with stage 1-5 CKD. For patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing a procedure for benign prostatic hyperplasia ...

Your urologist will use several tests to determine how severe your BPH is and whether it affects your bladder health. They may recommend watchful waiting if your BPH is mild. Watchful waiting means ...

When medicine does not ease an enlarged prostate, known also as BPH, a common surgery with few risks is often used. By Gina Kolata King Charles III will have a procedure to address an enlarged ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and I am taking tamsulosin daily. It works and helps with my daily urination. How long should I continue to take it? Are there any related ...

The presence of scar tissue, periprostatic fibrosis, and inflammation due to previous surgery increases the complexity of some surgical tasks, according to investigators. Undergoing radical ...

This story is sponsored by Revere Health. Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP) is rapidly becoming the gold standard surgical treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and there ...

Using a high-pressure water jet to operate on an enlarged prostate can better preserve the ability to ejaculate, compared with standard laser surgery, finds research. The technique has similar ...

Driven by a growing patient population, rapid adoption of minimally invasive and robotic technologies, increased use of diagnostic-guided focal therapies, and the ongoing dominance of proven ...