I met with several italian scientists last month!
Drs Giovanni Mauri and Gianluigi Patelli at the Congress of the Interventional Radiology Society in Europe (CIRSE). Their new laser was approved by FDA recently and we anticipate participating as a providing site in the US. The procedure is transperineal but uses small (21g) needles. Only local anesthesia and an outpatient procedure.
They published a small series of patients with good results.
About 70 patients. The mean prostate volume changed from 74 ml to 49 ml; mean post voiding volume from 151 to 30ml; mean IPSS score from 22,3 to 7,7 ; mean Qol score from 4,4 to 0,8.
The follow up range was 3-39 months (mean 14 months).
No major complications occurred.
Stay tuned.