Peter, there appeared to be some improvement afters ISVE from about 1 mo to 6 mo. although medication was always required. then the LUTS increased to every 15 to 20 minutes so I spent alot of time at...
UPDATE: I'm feeling pretty good. it is now 27 months since my ISV embolization and 14 months since my P A E and 6 weeks since my last dose of any medication. my bladder capacity is slowly increasing...
chelseadons, if you go back through the forum thread your question is more or less answered. there are a lot of smart people who have contributed their thoughts and between them have consulted a vast...
I think it wise to avoid the biopsy. once again bread and butter for mr uro, but not the best for us.a better choice if worried about pca is the 3t mr study with rectal coil, which is arguably more...
what happened I cannot be sure. my varicocele may have recurred but my urologist could not detect it by palpation, and was unwilling to order further tests....
yes. a year earlier I had my isv's embolized and it appeared to help for awhile but then my prostate volume increased and my condition got much worse. that's when I started looking into PAE. By last...
PAE, PAE!! 3 FOR 3 PAE!!! mine was done 13 august 2014 at Northwestern and the only way I could tell something had been done was there was some blood in my semen for a few weeks. there was no pain or...
please forgive my stupidity. my last statement about the effects of pae on the prostate rings false. see the AJR article "Transarterial Prostate Embolization:Initial Experience in a Canine Model"...
hi gavrikon, my insurance covered varicocele embolization. the g-g procedure is alot the same so far as I can tell. when you read their papers and consider their reasoning it should suffice to remove...
thank you. have reported data. I think a weakness of the GG Andologia paper(2008) is not so much that there is no clinical trial, but rather that they do not report the methodology used in arriving...
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that serum testoserone uptick is impressive. my thought is that it goes along with a decrease in T concentration at the prostate, and that when you have the next trus it will show a decrease in pr...
the procedure used in my case has much in common with GG. my left and right internal spermatic veins and a duplicate on the left side were embolized with titanium coils. I believe this addresses the...
before my isv embolization I had 5 yrs of symptoms,with frequency at the extreme of 14x per night. since I was up all night Anyway I did alot off reading which is how I stumbled on the G G paper in...
good news. simple isv embolization works. my berkshire county urologist could feel my varicocele. my health insurance covered the procedure.eight months later it is a new and better world....