Treatment for LUTS
Your consultant may decide that you can be suitably reassured or require either medical treatment or a surgical procedure following a review of your results.
All the options will be discussed with the patient after they have been fully carefully assessed. The most appropriate and effective treatment will be recommended by a specialist. The service is lead by Mr Jas Kalsi, who is a very experienced consultant urological surgeon and specialist in minimally invasive surgical techniques.
Some of the potential surgical options include:
- Rezum – This innovative minimally invasive treatment uses steam to remove the enlarged part of your prostate. The steam is delivered to your prostate using an instrument inserted through your urethra while you are asleep. The steam energy then slowly (over the next 4-12 weeks) causes the obstructive prostate tissue to atrophy. There are 5 year multi-centre controlled trials to support this treatment.
- Urolift – This is also a minimally invasive treatment. Small clips are inserted into the prostate to pull the prostate apart while you are asleep. This allows a larger diameter through which to pass urine. The success rate is similar to Rezum in the short term but with the need for a higher re-treatment rate at 3 years.
- HoLEP (Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate) – The gold standard treatment for patients with large prostates (>80g) and those who cannot pass urine (in retention of urine). Through a telescope. A laser fibre using the new MOSES technology is used to carefully cut and remove excess prostate tissue that is blocking the flow of urine. Another instrument is then used to remove the prostate tissue. The removed tissue can then be analysed to exclude any cancerous cells. This technique has durable long term results with a low side effect profile.
- TURP (transurethral resection of the prostate) – TURP has been the standard of care surgical procedure that involves removing part of the prostate gland to alleviate the urinary symptoms associated with an enlarged prostate up 80g in size. The technique has been made safer and more effective using bipolar rather than monopolar diathermy.
- Greenlight laser surgery uses a different laser frequency than the Holmium. The excess prostate tissue is vaporized (dissolved) without harming other healthy tissue. The slight disadvantage of this type of laser is that no tissue is sent for analysis.
