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Urology Educational Videos

These educational videos provide clear, patient-friendly information about common urologic conditions, symptoms, and treatment options. You’ll learn when it may be time to see a urology specialist and what to expect during evaluation and care. Our goal is to help you feel informed, confident, and empowered to take the next step in your health journey. Understanding your urologic health is an important part of overall well-being.

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Treating the Prostate with Aquablation in New Albany, IN

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Any men that have increased difficulty with urinating, including straining, getting up at night, or having to run urgently or frequently to the bathroom might have an enlarged prostate, and they should all be evaluated by a urologist.

Aquablation therapy is a minimally invasive invasive procedure for enlarged prostates or BPH, and it's one of the most recent developments and technologies for men with enlarged prostates. The main difference in this treatment is it doesn't use cautery to resect the prostate. It uses a high velocity water jet, and because of that, the recovery from the procedure is much faster while having maintained its equal effectiveness.

In our follow-up visits, I've noticed a significant change in patient's urinary symptoms from before and after the procedure. They're most happy with their ability to empty their bladder much faster and easier and without straining. They also tend to not have to run to the restroom as urgently or frequently after the procedure. They also have had no issues with patients with incontinence or leakage afterwards, and they are able to maintain their erectile functions, so overall we're able to treat this problem without causing any significant side effects. Baptist Floyd now offers this procedure and that's an indication of their dedication to the patients in their local community using one of the latest and greatest technologies for men out in our community.

Treating Kidney Stones

Benefits of Implants for Erectile Dysfunction in Paducah, KY

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- [Dr. Evans] A candidate for a penile implant
is a man suffering from erectile dysfunction

when medical treatments have become either
no longer effective or having

bothersome side effects.

Risk factors for ED include hypertension,
diabetes, aging, and

prostate cancer treatments.

It should never be considered a normal
part of aging, and in almost all cases,

it's a treatable condition.

- [Penny] I had had a prostate surgery,
and when it was all over,

I was just completely impotent.

And you know, it gives you a lot of mental
distress, felt inadequate.

- There are a couple different
models of penile implant.

The inflatable penile implant is the most
common implant because it's discreet and

totally concealable and feels more
like a natural erection.

Penile implant consists of a
well-tolerated outpatient 45-minute

procedure done through a small
incision in the scrotum.

Men can generally return to work within
one to two weeks and use the implant

in four to six weeks.

- I am absolutely overjoyed,
would be the word for it.

It's amazing.

You feel whole again,
your confidence comes back,

and you're ready to attack the day a
little bit better.

If I had known what this was going to do
for me, I would have had it five,

six years ago, as soon as possible.

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Allison Cardin MD

[Hardin] Treating Kidney Stones

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Kidney stones are stones that form within the kidney. They're typically formed of calcium and some other substance, that binds with the calcium. There's a lot of different factors that can cause kidney stones to form, but when they do form in the kidney, there's the potential that they can pass into the ureter and cause issues.

Typically, someone will have pain or blood in the urine are usually the common presenting signs of kidney stones. And then the way that we diagnose that there are actually stones present is usually either an x-ray called a KUB or more commonly a CT scan. There's not any way of getting rid of kidney stones typically once they're formed without doing some kind of surgical procedure.

And there's three main ways that we treat kidney stones. There's something called an ESOL or a shock wave lithotripsy where we use ultrasound to break up stones. We can do ureteroscopy to remove stones, which is where we pass a small camera into the ureter and use a laser to break the stone up. We also treat kidney stones with percutaneous nephrolithotomy or PCNL. And in that approach, we go directly through the back into the kidney, which allows us to remove bigger stones. The operating rooms here at Baptist Health Harden are really tailored to be able to do any type of kidney stone surgery that we need to. We have the ability to treat all stones no matter the size in our operating room facilities here.

Treatment for Kidney Stones