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State of the art: Advanced techniques for prostatic urethral lift for the relief of prostate obstruction under local anesthesia

Lance Patrick Walsh

Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, California, USA
Address correspondence to Dr. Lance Patrick Walsh, Walsh Urology Associates, 72057 Highway 111, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 USA

Canadian Journal of Urology 2017, 24(3), 8859-8864.

Abstract

Benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) affects an estimated 60% of men over the age of 50 and 90% of men over the age of 80. The prostatic urethral lift (PUL) is a safe and effective office-based procedure that is used worldwide for the treatment of BPH in men who are dissatisfied with medications due to side effects or lack of efficacy or don’t want to have a transurethral resection of the prostate due to the side effects and invasiveness of the procedure. In 2012 Barkin et al, published the standard technique for the delivery of the UroLift implant. The objective of this article is to describe the current state of the art advanced techniques for the delivery of the UroLift implant.

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