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Prostate enlargement can cause many complications and inconveniences in daily life such as: frequent urination, urinary retention, urinary incontinence, frequent urination at night, affecting sleep quality and health. So, when you have prostate cancer, what medicine do you take?When a prostate tumor is diagnosed, the first method is medical treatment (treatment with traditional medicine or drugs). There are a number of Ayurvedic medicines that have positive effects. When using medical drugs, patients are prescribed a number of drugs with calcium and beta blockers to dilate the bladder neck, help urinate more and reduce the size of the tumor. However, some drugs to treat prostate enlargement have side effects that affect sexual function, reducing sex drive.
Currently, there are surgical methods for prostate cancer treatment, but it is also necessary to have strict indications, only when medical treatment fails, can surgical treatment of prostate enlargement be performed.
In case of failure of medical treatment for an enlarged prostate gland or bladder stones, acute urinary retention, hematuria, residual urine causing repeated urinary tract infections, bladder diverticula, and bladder stones are new. surgical treatment of an enlarged prostate gland.
There are many surgical methods of prostate enlargement surgery:
Previously open surgery under the midline below the umbilicus, this method currently has few places to do; Laparoscopic prostatectomy with bipolar - unipolar bipolar knife, time to cause damage, little extent of damage, short hospital stay. The disadvantage of prostate cancer treatment with this method is that it can only be used with small tumors and takes a long time to perform; The holmium laser surgery method, which uses a laser to remove the prostate gland, is applicable to large tumors, with less bleeding, and a shorter hospital stay due to less pain. In addition, the duration of urinary catheterization is shorter, so the hospital stay of patients with prostate enlargement is also lower. Currently, Vinmec Times City International Hospital has applied HoLEP surgery with more than 100 patients, patients after surgery to treat prostate tumors only stay in hospital for 2-3 days. After only 1-2 days, the sonde can be removed, so the patient will be more comfortable.
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