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Prairie Lakes Brings Cutting Edge BPH Procedure to Watertown
“THIS REPRESENTS THE LATEST
W
ATERTOWN AREA MEN
center like Watertown’s Mallard Pointe Surgical
suffering from symptoms such
Center. Patients go home the same day with a
as frequency, urgency, strain-
catheter, which comes out in three days.
ing, and irregular flow due to
says Dr. Adducci, who trained on the
now have a new minimally
procedure at Urology Specialists in
invasive option for relief closer
Sioux Falls, the only other center in
to home.
South Dakota that currently offers
Chris Adducci, MD, with
Rezum.
Prairie Lakes Urology recently
“Most men experience some
began offering transurethral
discomfort, frequency, and urgency
PROCEDURE FOR
radiofrequency thermal therapy
for a few weeks. But gradually, the
with the Rezum system to qual-
tissue that was killed with the steam
BPH BUT IT IS
ified patients, many of whom
IN-OFFICE
either want to get off medication
will resorb and open the channel. CHRIS ADDUCCI
By 10 to 12 weeks, they are as good as
ONE THAT IS
for BPH or avoid going on it.
VERY, VERY
“The technique is not new,” says Dr.
Adducci says Rezum can be used for a
Adducci. “He have had endoscopic ways of
wider range of patients than some other
opening up the area using heat. The difference
minimally invasive BPH treatments such as
with Rezum is that it is convected heat, rather
the UroLift implant system and causes less
than conducted heat. You are literally injecting
discomfort than transurethral microwave
steam into the prostate at nine-second inter-
thermotherapy (TUMT). Rezum does not cause
vals. So there is less discomfort than with
incontinence or erectile dysfunction and is
a procedure such as transurethral needle
approved for gland sizes less than 80 grams.
TOLERABLE” - CHRIS ADDUCCI -
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“Our patients are tolerating this very well,”
benign prostatic hyperplasia
they are going to get.”
ablation (TUNA), which also takes a lot longer.”
“This represents the latest in-office proce-
With Rezum, the patient receives an aver-
dure for BPH but it is one that is very, very
age of six needle insertions (up to 15), each one
tolerable,” says Dr. Adducci. “It is great to be
lasting nine seconds. The procedure is done
able to offer this cutting edge treatment right
under local anesthesia, often at an outpatient
here in Watertown. This one is here to stay. ❖