What Is The Best Treatment For An Enlarged Prostate?
(early treatments: open surgery, TURP, alpha blockers) A brief review of the history of treatments for enlargement of the prostate will tremendously help with your understanding where therapy stands today. One of the earliest treatments for enlargement of the prostate was open surgery through an eight inch incision in the lower belly to core out the inner, blocking tissue of the prostate. This was called a suprapubic (SPP) or retropubic prostatectomy (RPP) (and should not be confused with open surgery to remove the whole prostate when the diagnosis was cancer – open radical prostatectomy). When the patient did not have cancer and simply had a huge prostate, this supra/retro pubic prostatectomy was done. In it, the blocking tissue was shelled out of the capsule of the gland, clearing the once blocked channel. This was very invasive and needed a considerable post-op recovery period. Obviously patients would rather grow their prostates very big before they felt having this procedure was w
