CoreTherm for BPH Ablation

From the AUA meeting in Houston comes an announcement about Swedish Prostalund‘s new CoreTherm probe for benign prostatic hypertrophy. The probe uses microwaves to heat the overgrown prostate:

Prostalund®, Inc., a Swedish developer and manufacturer of medical devices, today announced its unique CoreTherm® medical device that utilizes minimally invasive, temperature-controlled, microwave thermotherapy to treat an enlarged prostate (BPH – benign prostatic hyperplasia), which affects millions of men in the U.S. CoreTherm effectively treats patients in 10-15 minutes, produces results equivalent to surgery, and is safer than surgery with significantly fewer serious adverse events. Because CoreTherm only requires a local anesthetic and is administered on an outpatient basis, it is especially beneficial for patients at greater risk for a surgical procedure requiring general anesthesia.

The CoreTherm has many intriguing features, including cell-kill calculation software and something called a “semi-automatic stub tuner.”
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