Prostatic urolume in high-operative-risk patients: Personal experience

Abstract

The increase in high-operative-risk patients with obstructive prostatic hypertrophy has prompted research over the last ten years into alternative therapeutic methods, one of which is the prostatic Urolume. This study reports the positioning of the prostatic Urolume in 37 such patients who were divided into two groups: 18 without catheters (group 1) and 19 with indwelling catheters (group 2). At follow up, both groups were found to have no obstruction according to flow nomograph values. At follow up after six months the average maximum flow value in the first group was 16.7 ml/s while in the second group it was 12.8 ml/s. In this study the prostatic Urolume proved to be a safe and effective system for high-operative-risk patients with prostatic hypertrophy.