LASER TREATMENT FOR ENLARGED PROSTATE - Quanta System

The course of the operation
Laser treatment of the prostate occurs under anesthesia with an spinal
or under general anesthesia.
The urologist brings an instrument through your urethra, a cystoscope. This allows the
prostate examined. Through the cystoscope, a laser fiber is inserted.
Excess tissue from the prostate is excised and evaporated by the laser piece by
piece. This technique is called vapo-resection. The effect is similar to the
hollowing of an apple with an apple drill.
The wall (the capsule) of the prostate remains. The cut pieces are
flushed out with a washing liquid, which runs through the cystoscope into the
bladder.
There is only an internal wound. Any blood vessels can be coagulated with the laser,
to prevent bloodloss.
After surgery, a bladder catheter is inserted.
When using a laser everyone in the operating room must wear protective goggles.
After the operation
The bladder catheter is removed the day after surgery when the urine is clear in color
is. Next, you must be able to urinate spontaneously (pee yourself). The nurse will after
urination with an ultrasound device examine if your bladder is empty. If urinating is no
longer a problem you may go home.
After surgery, you may temporarily experience problems with urination. Sometimes it
may be a difficult to hold your urine. It is also possible that there is some blood in the
urine, this is only temporarily do not be alarmed. Please
adequate rest and drink lots until the blood disappears.
What are the risks?
After surgery, bleeding can occur from the prostate. Usually this bleeding
stops spontaneously . The urine still remain several days in succession bloody or
clots arise and there is a urination problem, please contact us.
There may be a urinary tract infection and / or an action associated with epididymitis
fever. Usually such an infection can properly be treated with antibiotics.
It may take some time before you can hold your urine perfectly again. This
is because the sphincter (the "downstream" where the prostate is located) needs time
to get used to the powerful stream. After a Cyber TM laser treatment of the prostate, it
often happens that after an
orgasm the sperm enters the bladder and not out of the penis.
The semen is as it were in the wrong direction.
The locking mechanism that normally prevents the laser is - together with the excess
prostate tissue - removed. There is called a "dry" ejaculation. This is not dangerous
to your health. Erectile dysfunction does not occurre after surgery.
There is a very small chance that after some time a narrowing of the urethra occurs.
This is due to the formation of scar tissue. Sometimes a new (surgical) treatment is
necessary.
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