Urology Services
Urologists at Southeast Georgia Health System focus on diseases, disorders
and conditions that affect the urinary tract, including the bladder, prostate
and kidneys.
While some diseases, such as prostate cancer or benign prostate disease,
pertain only to men, urologists treat men and women with sexual disorders,
urinary incontinence and overactive bladder as well as kidney, bladder
and other forms of urologic cancer.
Urologists also specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of urethral and
vaginal reconstruction, urinary tract infections and female pelvic prolapse.
Conditions treated by urologists include:
- Benign prostate hyperplasia
- Bladder cancer
- Hematuria
- Incontinence
- Male infertility
- Kidney cancer
- Kidney stones
- Prostate cancer
- Prostatitis
- Robotic/Laparoscopic surgery
- Testicular biopsy
- Testicular cancer
- Testosterone deficiency
- Urinary tract infection
- Urologic oncology
- Varicocele
- Vasectomy
The da Vinci Surgical System can improve urological surgical experience
Our board-certified urologists provide the latest minimally invasive techniques
using the
da Vinci® Surgical System. In addition to reduced blood loss, lower risk of infection and a shorter
hospital stay, the potential benefits of
da Vinci urology surgery include:
- More precise removal of cancerous tissue where cancer is present
- Fewer days requiring a catheter
- Faster return of erectile function
- Faster return of proper urinary function
- Reduced risk of nerve and rectum injury
- Faster recovery and return to normal activities
Complex urologic procedures made easy
The
da Vinci can be used for many complex urologic procedures using small keyhole incisions,
including:
- Adrenalectomy (removal of the adrenal glands)
- Bladder diverticulectomy (removal of large, weakened portion of the bladder)
- Cystectomy and radical cystectomy (bladder cancer)
- Nephrectomy (kidney removal)
- Partial nephrectomy (removal of only cancerous tumor and not the entire
kidney; can be done through small incisions in the abdomen or going through
the back depending on location of tumor in the kidney)
- Pyleloplasty (kidney reconstruction)
- Prostatectomy (prostate removal)
- Ureteral repair
- RPLND (retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for certain patients with
testicular cancer)
- Vesico vaginal fistula repair
Related articles:
Press Release:
Health System Welcomes Urologist to Affiliated Practice
Press Release:
SGPA-Urology Opens Office in St. Marys
Surgery Made Simple
Healthy Partners, Fall 2015
Surgery used to mean months of recovery time, a weeklong hospital stay
and substantial pain. But not anymore. Today, doctors can use new tools
and techniques that have you home the next day, back to work the next
week and fully recovered the next month—if not sooner.
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