Dr. Matthew S. Lee discusses study comparing BPH surgical modalities
The study evaluated holmium laser enucleation of the prostate, open simple prostatectomy, and robotic simple prostatectomy.
In this video, Matthew S. Lee, MD, discusses the background and notable findings from the study, Outcomes after holmium laser enucleation of the prostate, open simple prostatectomy, and robotic simple prostatectomy: experience from a large academic medical center, which was presented at the 2022 American Urological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Lee is an endourology fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.
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.
