Patient's question:
Grandpa has frequent urination, urgent urination, and painful urination. Dad took him to the hospital for a thorough examination, and it was determined to be prostatitis, for which surgery can be performed. What are the surgical methods for prostatitis?Doctor's answer:
Your grandfather is 72 years old and has urinary symptoms such as frequent urination and urgency. The diagnosis should be benign prostatic hyperplasia, also known as benign prostatic hypertrophy. An ultrasound examination can help confirm the diagnosis. The treatment method should be surgical. There are traditional surgical approaches, such as suprapubic transvesical resection of the prostate, which is a more thorough procedure and can achieve a cure. Currently, in addition to minimally invasive electroresection surgery, which has the advantage of less damage and better patient tolerance, the disadvantage is that it is not as thorough and may require a second surgery if symptoms recur.