“We found that the adverse event rates have dropped dramatically, to about a third of what it was reported in the pivotal trial, but at the same time still had the same net benefits in terms of efficacy when it comes to Q max, symptomatic improvement, as well as PVR," said Bilal Chughtai, MD.
In this video, Bilal Chughtai, MD, an associate professor of Urology at Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses the background and findings of his recent paper, "Pilot study of ‘less is more’ Rezum for treatment of BPH."
Academic, private practice urologists collaborate to change BPH reimbursement
April 1st 2024"We really aimed to affect 3 different contraindications and instead achieved retirement of the entire policy, which, we think, really opens up this wonderful technology to literally hundreds of thousands more patients across the country," says Arpeet Shah, MD.