Treatment of enlarged prostate

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Prostate enlargement has also become benign prostatic hyperplasia, which is not unfamiliar to many people. It is a common disease in the male elderly. So, how do men treat prostate hypertrophy? Let me tell you about it.

Treatment of enlarged prostate

First: in the current treatment of prostatic enlargement, there are many treatment methods. First, for patients with mild symptoms and not particularly obvious symptoms, experts suggest that there is no need for treatment. In addition, patients with more serious symptoms need to consider drug treatment. Among them, 5 α - reductase inhibitors, α - receptor blockers, antiandrogens and derivatives, and botanical drugs are widely used External surgery is also common.

Second: for surgical treatment, it can also be divided into (1) transurethral resection of the prostate, which is also the gold standard of the current treatment. In addition, open surgery (suprapubic transvesical prostatectomy, retropubic retained urethral prostatectomy) can also be selected. These treatment methods are more harmful to the human body, and have strong pertinence to the disease, so patients should be cautious It's a good choice.

Third: in addition, in the treatment of prostate enlargement, minimally invasive surgery is also more common, transurethral electrovaporization of the prostate, cryotherapy, laser therapy, radiofrequency ablation, cryotherapy is the first to make the prostate tissue necrosis after low-temperature freezing, shedding, has achieved the purpose of treatment. Microwave therapy is to use microwave to make biological thermal coagulation; laser is to use thermal effect to solidify prostate tissue. Radiofrequency ablation is similar to laser in principle, but also makes local thermal effect, making tissue necrosis to achieve the purpose of cure.

matters needing attention

Warm tips: the above is about the "men how to treat prostate enlargement" introduction, hope to help you, but for different patients, the physical condition is not the same, the degree of illness is not the same, so, the above can only be used as a reference, in order to completely cure prostate enlargement, or need to choose a regular hospital for professional diagnosis and treatment.