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8:05 a.m., April 7, 2024
On the occasion of World Health Day, Europe 1 is interested in an innovation improving men’s health. Men’s lives can be ruined because of benign prostatic hyperplasia. On the other hand, a new therapy, fully reimbursed, has just been presented at the European Congress of Urology. Presentation.
This Sunday is World Health Day! The opportunity to take stock of an innovation for men’s health, and a disorder that can ruin men’s lives: benign prostatic hypertrophy. One in two men over 50 and 70% of men over 80 present symptoms linked to this pathology (leaks, frequent urination). Focus on a new therapy, fully reimbursed, which has just been presented at the European Urology Congress: “Rezum”.
No more medications to take
“There, we will be able to press to send our needle”. Imagine a gun and inside, a one-centimeter needle is inserted into the patient’s urethra. Once it reaches the prostate, 103 degree water vapor is released for nine seconds. “There is sound safety, we wait two seconds for the diffusion of steam to end, we retract our needle and we can move on to the next puncture. So, it’s easy to do, it’s reproducible,” explains urologist Marc Fourmarier.
Rezum has its advantages. The operation lasts ten minutes under general anesthesia and the patient goes home the same day. Another positive point, unlike treatment, there are no more medications to take, assures the urologist. “Today, patients are fed up with taking medications and, what’s more, medications that can have side effects, particularly on ejaculation, or even on the quality of erections,” he explains. at the microphone of Europe 1. This therapy is effective. Rezum has been present for five years in France and since then, out of 1,100 patients, only 4.4% have had to return to the urologist.