Urology Surgery
Urology surgery - advanced,
high tech treatment
Cape Cod Healthcare’s experienced
urologists offer a full range of procedures for
adult and pediatric urology. J. Keith Bleiler, M.D., a Falmouth Hospital staff
surgeon and board-certified urologist, places an emphasis on kidney, bladder and
prostate cancer control for all age groups using cutting edge technologies.
“Here you’ll find nearly every surgical procedure that
is offered in Boston, with the same or better care,” Dr. Bleiler says. “We offer
all major surgeries and treatments for all types of urologic cancers, including
the nerve-sparing
prostatectomy.”
Many urologic surgeries are moving toward less invasive or non-invasive approaches.
For example, residents on the Cape suffering with kidney stone complications have
a new treatment option that may relieve the pain. In an outpatient
procedure called extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy, doctors use shock waves to pulverize
the kidney
stone, breaking it into tiny sand-like particles that can pass with
urine.
"Lithotripsy is a safe procedure that causes very little risk to other
organs," said Robert Hartnett, M.D., a Cape Cod Hospital staff surgeon and
board-certified urologist. "It is highly effective when dealing with kidney
stones. Patients can usually go home within a few hours of the procedure."
The laparoscopic nephrectomy
is another new technique used by Cape urologists for controlling kidney
cancer. It’s a minimally invasive surgery to remove a kidney through three very
small incisions, replacing the traditional open surgery’s seven inch incision,
long hospital stay and six-week recovery.
“We do as much as we can on a
minimally invasive, outpatient surgery basis,” added Dr. Hartnett, “including
radioactive seed therapy implantation as a treatment option for prostate cancer;
kidney stone management and procedures for urinary incontinence.”
If prostate surgery (prostectomy) is
the necessary treatment path, "there is no better place than the Cape hospitals to
have it, because of our experience," said William G. Johston, M.D., a
Cape Cod Hospital staff surgeon and board-certified urologist.
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