Clinical experience of benign prostatic hyperplasia by trans urethral microwave thermotherapy(TUMT) / 대한비뇨기과학회지

ABSTRACT

Transurethral microwave thermotherapy(TUMT) is a new treatment modality for benign prostatic hyperplasia(BPH). Among those BPH patients who are treated by TUMT, 32 patients who are followed up appropriately are selected to analyze the effectiveness of TUMT. Patients were treated one time, for 1 hour. without sedation on an outpatient basis. All patients tolerated the treatment well without secondary effect Toxicity was mild. consisting of bladder spasm, urinary retention, dysuria, hematuria and urethral pain. Significant increase in urine flow rate(from 6.71 ml/sec to 11.2 ml/sec), decrease in post-void residual urine volume (from 82.2 ml to 28.6 ml) and decrease in frequency of nocturia (from 3.1 to 1.7) were observed. TUMT represents a safe and promising out-patient approach to treatment of BPH, particularly for patients who are not candidates for conventional surgical approaches because of medical or personal reasons.