Thermal processes of BPH surgery

Heat to cause the death of tissue engineering.
To different outcomes in BPH cause different thermal processes, such as hyperthermia, thermotherapy or thermal ablation. These are techniques, warm up by the action of microwaves on imported probes the prostate tissue and induce cell death.


hyperthermia:
When hyperthermia is this achieved at values ​​of 43 ° C. It does not lead to a decrease in prostate size. The improvement of subjective symptoms reported by some patients, however.


Transurethral Thermotherapy:
During transurethral thermal therapy is an enlarged prostate and computer-controlled heating with simultaneous cooling of the remaining urethra to temperatures of about 45.degree. It comes within the tumor tissue, scarring, which involve a reduction in volume by itself.


thermal ablation:
With the same devices can also be achieved in the thermal ablation with temperatures of 70 ° C on tissue necrosis around the bladder neck, which are then repelled by natural means.


The strength of these methods is that they are more gentle and less invasive. The disadvantage is the onset, until after months of improvement in symptoms.


Assessment of the DGU
The guidelines of the German Society for Urology hyperthermia is assessed as follows: "This procedure can not be recommended for the treatment of BPH syndrome, because the temperatures are not achieved intraprostatic tissue necrosis as a prerequisite for a therapeutic effect can produce."