Dr. Kevin Zorn, Urologist

Duration: 1 minutes and 44 seconds

In the iTind is a minimally invasive procedure performed with a small flexible camera and a cystoscope, and it's all done within about five minutes under a local block.

We go in and place a structure that kind of looks like the wire brace around a champagne cork, a device that's got three prongs with sort of a metal twine that untwist and holds it in place in the prostate. The device has three heads to it, one at 12 o'clock, one at five and the other strut at seven o'clock. And this is placed through the bladder and then using cystoscope, pulled back and place it correctly in the prostate. Kind of like if you were wearing braces over the next five to seven days. These struts will place grooves within the prostate and reshape it and then after five to seven days we simply retrieve the device so that there is no permanent metal left in the patient.

So, unlike compressing laterally and opening the drapes, as we'll see with other techniques of Urolift, this will be done with these grooves and heighten the prosthetic urethra so rather than laterally opening, there's a vertical opening of the urethral channel. So very quickly, there's recovery, there's no catheterization, and there's no sexual dysfunctions.

What we've seen in the data is very promising results in up to five years that shows very strong durability with no permanent metal implants. And this is something that can be done in the office versus a hospital setting.

For more information on BPH therapies and evaluation, speak to your family physician to get consultation to your local urologist.

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Zorn, Urologist, Montreal, QC

Local Practitioners: Urologist