The treatment commences by inserting the Cystoscope containing our new BPH probe through the urethra. The head of the bareber is pushed out of the probe. The dual laser of 980nm and 1470nm is discharged from the probe head.
The operator steers the probe, rotating it to ablate the tissue in a circular motion. The funnel grows larger step by step and the BPH probe is withdrawn from the prostate at the end. Urine can once again low off freely.
BPH involves hyperplasia (an increase in the number of cells) rather than hypertrophy (a growth in the size of individual cells), but the two terms are often used interchangeably, even amongst urologists. Adenomatous prostatic growth is believed to begin at approximately age 30 years. An estimated 50% of men have histologic evidence of BPH by age 50 years and 75% by age 80 years; in 40–50% of these men, BPH becomes clinically signicant.
