Incontinence

1. Permanent Incontinence after Prostate-Surgery

Noch immer werden Männer vor einer Prostata-OP über Harninkontinenz als Spätfolge des Eingriffs nicht umfassend aufgeklärt. Dabei trifft der unfreiwillige Verlust von Urin trotz nervenschonender Operationstechniken ...

2. HDR-Brachytherapy delivers outstanding cure-rates and quality of life

... urinary incontinence and sexual functions as well as the effect of the therapy on the life quality of the patients. Recording of the data was performed using validated questionnaires. The results are ...

3. Laser therapy safer than TURP

... of Urology. Modern laser therapies are not only resulting in fewer side effects, such as urinary retention, incontinence and impotence, but they also prevent postoperative blood loss. Patients ...

4. Prostate Carcinoma: just wait and see, and not do anything?

... For example, almost 50 per cent of the patients undergoing radical surgery suffer after the procedure from stress incontinence, and 30 to 100 per cent of the patients suffer erectile dysfunction. The German ...

5. HDR-Brachytherpay delivers outstanding cure-rates and quality of life

... urinary incontinence and sexual functions as well as the effect of the therapy on the life quality of the patients. Recording of the data was performed using validated questionnaires. The results are ...

6. Prostate Carcinoma: just wait and see, and not do anything?

... For example, almost 50 per cent of the patients undergoing radical surgery suffer after the procedure from stress incontinence, and 30 to 100 per cent of the patients suffer erectile dysfunction. The ...

7. Laser treatment now also possible for benign prostatic enlargement

... who perform such procedures on a regular basis, can guarantee safe work and avoid side effects such as incontinence or impotence.  ...

8. More side effects after robot-assisted surgery

... cohort study1 published in the Journal of American Medical Association - JAMA, shows that robotic surgery can increase the rate of complications, such as impotence and incontinence. In spite of the less ...

9. Guidelines confirm: less impotence and incontinence after seed implantations compared to surgery

... less from incompetence after the treatment. This is also true for incontinence, which is with a 0,3 to 3 percent occurrence disappearingly small compared to an occurrence of 50 percent in cases in which ...

10. IGRT increases precision in Radiation Therapy

... distress; and IGRT shows a substantially lower incidence of both impotence and incontinence than surgery or external beam irradiation. For a long time, radical surgery of the prostate was believed ...

11. Implementing the prostate cancer guidelines

... as equal therapy option in the localized prostate carcinoma with low-risk profile Lower risk of incontinence and impotence in cases of brachytherapy in comparison to radical prostatectomy According ...

12. Individually tailored treatment for prostate cancer

... of the prostate, which is still the most popular treatment in Germany, results often in a high rate of incontinence and impotence. For example, one out of ten patients can no longer hold his urine after ...

13. PSA test remains a standard screening method

... serious side effects, such as incontinence and impotence, can be kept to a minimal”, says Dr. Pedram Derakhshani, urologist at the West-German Prostate Center.   Focus on side effects In the future, ...

14. Seed Implantation: success depends on team experience

... patients are impotent after the surgery, up to 20 per cent of the patients must expect urethral incontinence. Brachytherapy, with an equal rate of a successful outcome, evidences an essential advantage ...

15. Open Prostate Enucleation

... TURP or TURiS. Moreover there is an increased risk of Complete or partial incontinence.  ...

16. Spectrum Overview

... enucleation incontinence surgery prostate resection (TUR-P) LIFE-diode-laser-therapy Greenlight-lasertherapy thermotherapy TUNA hormonal therapy chemotherapy  ...

17. Great response for the Prostate Patient Forum in Wiesbaden

... removed through a surgical procedure in most of the cases“ However, so Dr. Neubauer, this type of surgery often results in incontinence and impotence. Effective and at the same time minimally evasive ...

18. Cologne experts at „New York Brachytherapy Symposium“

... cancer are treated with surgery despite the high rate of impotence and incontinence, in the US, the modern form of radiation therapy is applied more often as a gentle alternative to radical prostate surgery, ...

19. Seed Implant

... whereby it is minimally invasive. Within three years of the treatment, incontinence is almost never noted; erectile dysfunction generally affects between 10 and 30 percent of brachytherapy patients. This ...

20. Radical Prostatectomy

... with an incision into the abdomen or an episiotomy or a laparoscopy within the scope of an abdominoscopy. The procedure generally lasts about 2 to 3 hours. Incontinence and Impotence After the removal ...