[Vaporizing resection - a new treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia]

Though transurethral resection (TUR) remains a routine treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), its complications observed in up to 18% of patients necessitate active search for novel endoscopic methods. Vaporizing resection (VR) is among them. It makes use of two electrosurgical techniques of tissue removal--resection and vaporization--which provide adequate removal of the tissue and good coagulation. VR was made in 84 BPH patients aged 57-82 years. 19 of them had epicystostomy. 1-year follow up examination showed that complaints index by IPSS scale diminished from 21.9 to 4.6, life quality--from 3.9 to 1.1, urine residual volume--from 118 to 19 ml, maximal urination rate Qmax increased from 6.7 to 18.5 ml/s. Thus, the scheme of BPH patients' examination, the operative technique and indications in VR are the same as in TUR, while the course of the postoperative period, frequency and type of complications are typical for electrovaporization: minimum of hemorrhagic complications, low probability of TUR-syndrome, less severe postoperative period, etc.