Expanding the urethral lumen by mechanically separating the encroaching prostatic lobes is a safe and simple means of providing rapid relief from lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). In a pilot study sponsored by NeoTract, manufacturers of The UroLift~R System, Henry Woo and colleagues successfully performed a 'prostatic urethral lift' On 19 men with moderate-to-severe LUTS. The handheld UroLift~R device is advanced transurethrally under cystoscopic guidance and used to compress a lateral lobe in an anterolateral orientation. Deployment of a spring-loaded mechanism then anchors polyester suture material via endpieces at two sites: the prostatic capsule and the urethral wall.
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