A limited, fully funded 'Monitored Introduction' has been approved for Benign Prostate Hypertrophy/Hyperplasia at Southampton University Hospital Trust. Since numbers are, at this stage, strictly limited it is important that only patients most likely to benefit from this treatment are offered Prostate Artery Embolisation (PAE) at this stage.
If you would like to be considered please complete the attached medical questionnaire, IPSS calculator and IIEF questionnaire. Please note that you will need a GP or Urology referral in order to be put forward for this programme. When all these have been completed and you have a referral letter, please contact Dr Hacking attaching these completed documents. If suitable Dr Hacking can arrange urology review and CT angiography before booking your PAE procedure.
Symptoms of 'Prostatism' (LUTS) are so common, but until conventional drug therapy has been tried TURP and PAE are unlikely to help or be offered. For this reason if you have mild or untreated symptoms you are unlikely to benefit and therefore unlikely to be chosen at this stage of the development of this procedure. Men with severe cardiovascular disease, hypertension or heavy smokers are likely to have small or inaccessible prostatic arteries and the CT angiogram may suggest that they are unsuitable.
For further information on the procedure, please click on the attached information factsheet.
If having read the factsheet you are interested in becoming part of the monitored clinical introduction please fill in the online contact form here and return completed copies of the attached documents to Dr Nigel Hacking at the following address.
Dr Nigel Hacking
Prostate Artery Embolisation Service
Southampton General Hospital
Tremona Road
Southampton
SO15 6YD