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It was reported to boston scientific via an article presented on the 133rd annual meeting of the japanese urological association, that a retrospective study was conducted to assess required re-operation, after a water vapor thermal therapy procedure using rezum to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia.Data from patients that underwent rezum therapy from 01june2024 to 30july2025 at 1 institution in japan indicated that 3 patients required re-operation.Case 2 was a 70s male who underwent rezum therapy.However, his voiding dysfunction persisted.Cystoscopy revealed a bladder neck contracture.This patient underwent transurethral resection, which improved the patient's subjective feeling, urinary flow did not improve significantly.This suggested that the patient had a concurrent neurogenic bladder.
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