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Anesthesia for a Prostate Biopsy

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 15 6:30pm | Replies (40)
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@rick137

My understanding is the standard at Mayo Phoenix is also an in-office procedure done with a local. Anesthesia in my case will be a work-around for not being able to obtain timely cardiac clearance.

Given the importance of the biopsy I am surprised it was done by a PA. Was it a MRI fusion biopsy?

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mn281 | @mn281 | Mar 7 11:19am

It was not real time MRI fusion, but they used the MRI along with ultrasound to pinpoint the lesion from the MRI. They then randomly sampled both sides of the prostate in addition to the focused lesion.

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