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Prostate Arterial Embolization- PAE
I´m 74 years old and by 2017 I made a PAE. Prostate size 122g. Pós-operative was: excruciating pain in urethra when urinating, blood in pee and faeces, fever in perineum and rectum. Unfortunately my prostate grow again and I need to make another PAE because I have only one working kidney and had two cardiac surgeries. I´m trying to find the following information: 1 - What´s the success rate of a second PAE. 2 - Has this procedure changes in 8 years to bring less pain pós-operative? Which medicines some of you used to counteract tha hellish pain I felt. I was suggested Rezum but studies show only 17% decrease in big prostate sizes. Any help will be very welcome
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I did not know PAE could have those kind of complications nor that might have to be redone. Have you considered a HoLEP? I had that done a few years ago and it has been a great solution for me.
I have no financial conditions to do a HOLEP, and I´m afraid of strictures which always happens with HOLEP. And I was told that it´s a very blood surgery
I had BiPoLep done in Jan 2022 and I am very pleased with the results. My prostate was 125cc with a median lobe covering the bladder outlet and I could not pee. I was on a Foley catheter for about 6 weeks leading up to the surgery. I now sleep through the night about 99% of the time without having to get up to pee and I still pee like a teenager since the surgery. BiPoLep is very similar to HoLEP, just uses a slightly different cutting tool. Both of these surgeries use a hot cutting tool to cauterize as they cut to reduce the bleeding. I am NOT a doctor but I would not call these surgeries "very bloody". You may be thinking of TURP which I believe uses a cold steel cutting tool. I had no stricture after my surgery. My surgeon did list that as a possible side effect of the surgery but said that it was not common. I was 69 years old at the time of the surgery and on Medicare with supplemental and it was completely covered. I paid a small deductible because it was early in the calendar year and I had not yet met the deductible. Both of these surgeries will leave you with retrograde ejaculation which admittedly does slightly reduce the pleasure of an orgasm, but I would do it all over again if I had to. In fact, I would not have waited until I was in urinary retention and on a catheter. Best of luck to you.
Thank you very much for your explanation of this procedure. It will helpme a lot
I had HOLEP in Dec 24. Only had heavy blood in the urine the day of the surgery.