Men who go through prostate surgery often experience serious and mostly unspoken side effects such as bleeding, erectile dysfunction and ejaculation disorders.
But a new non-surgical urology procedure that was successfully performed at Cape Town’s Tygerberg Hospital, which only takes 10 minutes, is set to revolutionise how prostate surgery is performed in future.
Led by Stellenbosch University’s head of urology Prof André van der Merwe, the procedure uses the natural energy stored in steam to remove excess prostate tissue that is pressing on the urethra. Van der Merwe and his colleagues performed the first five procedures at Tygerberg’s urology day-theatre complex last week.
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