A Comparison of Transurethral and Transrectal Microwave Hyperthermia in Poor Surgical Risk Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Patients

Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy Treatment by Transurethral Radiofrequency Hyperthermia with Thermex ll

“…These results show the absence of the effect of hyperthermia on the volume of the adenoma, a moderate improvement of the flow rate and certainly a subjective improvement in 2 out of 3 patients [3][4][5]. If there is an improvement it is obtained at 3 months and in this case the result is stable at 6 months.…”

Office-Based Transurethral Microwave Thermotherapy Using the TherMatrx TMx-2000

“…7 This early experience resulted in the development of the Prostatron, and in 1993, Blute et al 8 reported the results of the treatment of 150 BPH patients with transurethral thermotherapy in a multi-institutional study. 8 This TUMT procedure and device utilized a delivery catheter that incorporated urethral cooling because it was believed that optimal patient tolerance would be facilitated.…”

Transurethral Microwave Therapy: Patient Selection and Outcome

“…Total symptom scores fell by 65%, residual urine volumes by 81% whilst peak flow rates increased by 6.2 ml/s. Stawarz et al [17] studied 14 patients who received transurethral microwave therapy and reported a signifi cant improvement in 11 (79%) patients. The 3 patients who failed to benefit all had significant middle lobe hypertrophy.…”

“…Early trials of multiple transrectal [15] and transurethral [16] treatments reported good symptomatic improvement. Transurethral treatment is more effective at relieving symptoms compared with transrectal treatment [17], This study examines the first 41 patients treated using the Leo Microthermer transurethral microwave transmit ter. A retrospective analysis of response against pretreat ment parameters has been undertaken to assess the crite ria by which patients should be selected for transurethral microwave therapy.…”