Difficult in the forefront of 70 can do?

BPH is a common disease in elderly men. Data show that over 50 people in the Laoniu incidence rate of 30% to 80%. At present the most effective treatment is surgical excision hyperplasia the forefront of spine and restore the patency of the urethra. Many patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and their families have such a question: are over 70 years of age, can perform an operation? »


BPH is a common disease in elderly men. Data show that over 50 people in the Laoniu incidence rate of 30% to 80%. At present the most effective treatment is surgical excision hyperplasia the forefront of spine and restore the patency of the urethra. Many patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and their families have such a question: are over 70 years of age, can perform an operation? »

On the forefront of medicine has never been difficult for the age restriction, because the disease itself is an old age disease, a serious young and middle-aged period rarely need surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia. For older patients, as long as vital organs like heart, lung, brain function without serious failure, daily life can take care of themselves, can climb up to the third floor, tolerance prostate surgery there is no basic problem. The forefront of modern difficult for the vast majority of minimally invasive surgery: from urethral insert special equipment, electricity knife to cut the prostate, urethra after placing a catheter, the general can be discharged after about a week, on the human body against smaller. Therefore, if the physical condition permits, should act quickly, as soon as possible to prostate surgery to avoid long-term because of prostate urethral blockage caused kidney failure, systemic deterioration of the situation, Huizhiwanyi. I have encountered such a patient, more than 60 years old when the first gland hyperplasia are very serious, doctors Quanqi line TURP surgery, but he also feel that the body of tough, every time the incidence of urinary not tell when it went to the hospital on a urine The rescue of urgency, it is so dragged on for 10 years. To the more than 70 years of age, the prostate symptoms more severe, more than 20 times every night Qiye, can not adhere to the requirements of the initiative to find doctors surgery, routine preoperative examination, the elderly because of age, organ degradation, Coupled with benign prostatic hyperplasia impact on cardiac function, lung function, kidney function, and so on a number of checks is on a "red light", has lost its operation time, can only do simple burrows of the bladder, that is, in patients with a lower abdominal bladder District A hole, drainage tube inserted into the urine.

What are the breakdown of experts to be done in the first column gland surgery: (1) as long as there were a time of acute urinary retention (bladder Zhang Man, can not urinate) of the patients (2) In addition to benign prostatic hyperplasia, combined with bladder stone Squilla , Such as bladder cancer in patients with bladder disease (3) the long-term prostate hyperplasia plug urethra, resulting in the patients with renal dysfunction (4) As the first column gland hyperplasia led to repeated urinary tract infection, hematuria patients. Patients diagnosed more than once, to visit the prostate surgery, or add conditions, life-threatening.