Laser surgery for Prostate-The major Inducer for erectile dysfunction
The prostate gland is only present in men, and all around the world, there is the huge proportion of men who are widely affected by the different conditions of prostate. These include the benign prostate hyperplasia and the carcinoma of prostate. Most of these diseases are conditions are controlled and cured, yet the proportions of the men who are suffering from these terrible conditions are older people. However, these days, the proportion of the younger patients has been increasing, and this has given the caution for many medical professional that there will be the problem of erectile dysfunction in these men in their younger age.
There are many treatments options that are present for the prostate conditions, among these, the use of surgery and especially the laser surgery is being one of the major ones to take care of it. On the other hand, finding these conditions to be true, there was the research done by the Journal of Endourology. According to the treatment options that are proposed for the erectile dysfunction and the prostate condition, the use of laser surgery has been mostly contraindicated and in this way, the laser surgery is now making it quite possible for many men to be exposed to the danger of erectile dysfunction in the future. Hence, research done by American Urological Association in their annual meeting has shown that the laser surgery for the treatment of different conditions in prostate shall be minimal and should be done as the last resort.
According to the researchers of Columbia University college of physician and surgeons, the use of the CO2 laser for the laser surgery has shown quite good and improving results for curing the prostate conditions, however, unlike other laser types used, there are less than 14% chances that the use of CO2 laser for the treatment of the prostate will induce erectile dysfunction as the complication or side effects in many patients.
On the other hand, there are also the researchers who have used the CO2 laser in combination for the treatment and surgery with the robotic aid, there were the great precision and accuracy through which the surgery was done, and it has shown that this was quite good for not inducing the erectile dysfunction for the patients who are suffering from the other prostate conditions. There are other researchers that are being done in order to find out the gold standard medications which will reduce the proportion of the erectile dysfunction in the patients who are undergoing the laser surgery for the prostate conditions. On the other hand, most of these patients are using Viagra for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.
