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Lift and separate to relieve LUTS

Nature Reviews Urology volume 8, page 352 (2011)Cite this article

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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® System, Henry Woo and colleagues successfully performed a 'prostatic urethral lift' on 19 men with moderate-to-severe LUTS.

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  1. Woo, H. H. et al. Safety and feasibility of the prostatic urethral lift: a novel, minimally invasive treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). BJU Int. doi:10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10342.x

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  1. Suzanne J. Farley
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Farley, S. Lift and separate to relieve LUTS. Nat Rev Urol 8, 352 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2011.88

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