Prostate Problems? Urinary Problems?

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When you can't pee, it ruins your sex life.
Here is more than a dozen different prostate procedures, with each one having their advantages and disadvantages.  You may run across more.

Keep in mind each doctor may do only one or at most three procedures.  You have to pick the procedure and then search for the doctor/clinic.  Also, you may have to travel and may have to wait three months or more for a specific doctor.  Finally, not all procedures are covered by insurance.


  Prostate Summary Options
Procedures not impacting urinary nor sexual functions:
- Urolift (size limit)
- Rezum  (water vapor injected into prostate via urethral catheter) (size limit)
- Prostatic artery embolization (PAE) (drug trials)
-  Focal Laser Ablation (FLA)
        FLA-Pca (cancer)
        FLA-BPH (non cancer)
- Gat Goren procedure (Israel)


Procedures impacting urinary and/or sexual functions:
(incontinence, impotence, erection, orgasm, ejaculation, retrograde ejaculation)


- Transurethral needle ablation (TUNA)  low energy radio waves using tip of catheter
-  Tranurethral Electrovaporization (TUVP) high voltage electrical current to vaporize prostate tissue
- Transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT)  microwave energy (heat)

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  Prostate Summary Options


Procedures not impacting urinary nor sexual functions:
- Urolift (size limit)
- Rezum  (water vapor injected into prostate via urethral catheter) (size limit)
- Prostatic artery embolization (PAE) (drug trials)
-  Focal Laser Ablation (FLA)
FLA-Pca (cancer)
FLA-BPH (non cancer)
- Gat Goren procedure (Israel)


Procedures impacting urinary and/or sexual functions:
(incontinence, impotence, erection, orgasm, ejaculation, retrograde ejaculation)
-  Transurethral needle ablation (TUNA)  low energy radio waves using tip of catheter
-  Tranurethral Electrovaporization (TUVP) high voltage electrical current to vaporize prostate tissue
- Transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT)  microwave energy (heat)

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Prostate Summary Options

Procedures not impacting urinary nor sexual functions:

-  Urolift (size limit)
-  Rezum  (water vapor injected into prostate via urethral catheter) (size limit)
-  Prostatic artery embolization (PAE) (drug trials)
-  Focal Laser Ablation (FLA)
    FLA-Pca (cancer)
    FLA-BPH (non cancer)
-  Gat Goren procedure (Israel)

Procedures impacting urinary and/or sexual functions:
    (incontinence, impotence, erection, orgasm, ejaculation, retrograde ejaculation)

-  Transurethral needle ablation (TUNA)  low energy radio waves using tip of catheter
-  Tranurethral Electrovaporization (TUVP) high voltage electrical current to vaporize prostate tissue
-  Transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT)  microwave energy (heat)

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  Prostate Summary Options


Procedures not impacting urinary nor sexual functions:


,,  Urolift (size limit)
,,  Rezum  (water vapor injected into prostate via urethral catheter) (size limit)
,,  Prostatic artery embolization (PAE) (drug trials)
,,  Focal Laser Ablation (FLA)
      FLA-Pca (cancer)
      FLA-BPH (non cancer)
,,  Gat Goren procedure (Israel)


Procedures impacting urinary and/or sexual functions:
      (incontinence, impotence, erection, orgasm, ejaculation, retrograde ejaculation)


,,  Transurethral needle ablation (TUNA)  low energy radio waves using tip of catheter
,,  Tranurethral Electrovaporization (TUVP) high voltage electrical current to vaporize prostate tissue
,,  Transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT)  microwave energy (heat)

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  Prostate Summary Options


Procedures not impacting urinary nor sexual functions:


,,  Urolift (size limit)
,,  Rezum  (water vapor injected into prostate via urethral catheter) (size limit)
,,  Prostatic artery embolization (PAE) (drug trials)
,,  Focal Laser Ablation (FLA)
      FLA-Pca (cancer)
      FLA-BPH (non cancer)
,,  Gat Goren procedure (Israel)


Procedures impacting urinary and/or sexual functions:
      (incontinence, impotence, erection, orgasm, ejaculation, retrograde ejaculation)


,,  Transurethral needle ablation (TUNA)  low energy radio waves using tip of catheter
,,  Tranurethral Electrovaporization (TUVP) high voltage electrical current to vaporize prostate tissue
,,  Transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT)  microwave energy (heat) urethral catheter
,,  Photo-vaporization of the prostate (PVP)
,,  Laser  cut out excess tissue  (green light)
,,  Prostatic Urethral Lift (PUL)
,,  Robiotic-assisted Simple Prostatectomy, enucleation
      (physically shelling out abnormally enlarged portion)
,,  Radical Prostectomy
,,  Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP)
,,  Transurethral incision of the Prostate (TUIP) cuts in prostate to reduce pressure on urethra
,,  Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) not permanent, repeat 10-15 yr.
      (can have leakage, nerve damage)

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