Patients whose complaints do not affect their quality of life much can be followed up at intervals not exceeding 1 year without the need for any treatment.
Prostate Drug Treatment
Today, the first choice in the treatment of prostate enlargement. are medical treatments. With these drugs, which are a non-surgical prostate treatment method, the quality of life of patients increases and the need for surgery decreases. Prostate medications are effective the day they are used, and their effects disappear when they are stopped.
Prostate Surgery
When drug treatment is insufficient or accompanied by Surgical treatments are applied in cases where there are additional pathologies such as bladder stones. Approximately 90-95% of patients are now treated with closed (endoscopic) surgeries. After this procedure, which requires approximately 2 days of hospital stay, patients go home without a catheter.
Open surgery is also performed on patients with very large prostates or additional pathologies such as bladder diverticulum.
In closed or open prostate surgeries, the tissues in the inner part of the prostate gland are removed, but the shell part is not removed. Therefore, the risk of prostate cancer in patients who have undergone these surgical operations remains at the same rate as their peers who have not undergone surgery. People who have had prostate surgery should also have annual check-ups.
Loss of sexual function (impotence) is very rarely observed after surgery due to prostate enlargement. However, since the prostate gland cannot fully function after these surgeries and during the use of prostate medications, sperm may leak back to the bladder during ejaculation (retrograde ejaculation). For this reason, sperm may not be released during intercourse after prostate surgery.
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