Alcohol injections as BPH treatment

Good idea tim

clinicaltrials <dot> gov/ct2/show/NCT00037141

Go to youtube and search Fexapotide Triflutate Filter your results to the last year. This drug has been going through trials for years. I don't know if this video is a marketing ploy or not. There seems to be pretty good results reported ealier this year ( 2018 ) The video I'm talking about is the second one that shows up with above search criteria. There are other injectables that are in trials also.

Unless some reputable medical journals are reporting scientific advances I would not be too concerned.

Hi Hank 53..........I have not been able to navigate this site, so, I am sorry that it has taken a long time to answer you. I have learned much in recent times and just wanna' tell you about a little discovery of mine in relation to your "self Cath" statement of perhaps one month ago.

In my research I discovered that some men have their prostrate massaged by a doctor and this is done via the rectum. This is one treatment that I could not allow, so thinking through the plumbing of our prostrate area, I decided to use a small soft kiddies ball to perform a similar "rolling" pressure to the prostrate area. This is done by sitting on the ball and rolling it forward and back. Over the past month, I have saved myself on two separate occasions where I would have required a catheter insertion.

All-in-all, my 75mm prostrate has been reduced in size by the use of Tamsulosin and Finasteride tablets for the past 120 days....plus a major change of diet. I stopped the use of all sugary foods, all acidic foods and all food additives, coffee and alcohol. I have only twice reverted to coffee and/or alcohol and paid the price.....but saved by my "prostrate massage ball" method. My next step is to go back for an ultrasound and other tests. To correct my urine acid level, I use small amounts of baking soda. I find it quite easy to maintain a Ph of 7.5 to 8.0. I dont really know very much about this and guess the amount of baking soda to match my food intake....and it seems to work. Hope that this info will help you. Cheers and happy New Year.

Here's an abstract of the article. Not supposed to post a link.

Journal of EndourologyVol. 25, No. 3 Transurethral and Lower Tract Procedures

Dr. El-Husseiny looks well-credentialed but you English chaps can tell me whether that is true:

Primary medical qualifications

MBBCh (Hons) MSc MRCS MD FEBU FRCS (Urol)

Foreign languages

ArabicGender

Male

Services

UrologyHospitals

Charing Cross HospitalSt Mary's Hospital

Transurethral Ethanol Ablation of the Prostate for Symptomatic Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Long-Term Follow-Up

Tamer El-Husseiny, Noor Buchholz

Abstract

Background and Purpose: Over the past decade, a variety of new minimally invasive therapies (MIT) have been developed for the treatment of patients with bladder outflow obstruction from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Transurethral ethanol ablation of the prostate (TEAP) has been introduced as a minimally invasive alternative treatment for patients with BPH. In this study, we present our experience and results of long-term follow-up of 54 months after treatment of symptomatic BPH with TEAP.

Patients and Methods: Fifty-six men with symptomatic BPH were enrolled in our study; all patients were medically high-risk patients with multiple comorbidities. Procedures were performed under intravenous sedation combined with local urethral instillation of lidocaine jelly and a transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS)-guided periprostatic block. Dehydrated ethanol in a concentration of 95% to 98% was injected transurethrally by means of the Postaject Ethanol Injection System using a rigid cystoscope.

Results: The following data were collected: International Prostate Symptom Score, prostate-specific antigen level, prostate volume using TRUS, maximum urine flow rate, and postvoid residual. There was sufficient response in 73% of our patients, while the remaining 23% showed an insufficient response and needed alternative treatment.

Conclusion: TEAP is an effective minimally invasive treatment option for medically high-risk symptomatic patients with BPH that can be performed as an outpatient procedure under regional anesthesia. The procedure is easy, available, inexpensive, safe, and rapid. Further larger-scale, long-term multi-institutional trials are needed.