Hospital conducts urinary surgery on first foreign patient
Shanghai East Hospital conducted a minimally invasive surgery on a 79-year-old Japanese patient with benign prostatic hyperplasia and bladder stones, the hospital said on Friday.
Doctors used special laser equipment to smash the bladder stones into powder and remove enlarged prostatic tissue.
The removed parts were pushed into the bladder and extracted after being pulverized.
“The whole surgery only lasted 30 minutes and the patient suffered no scars or bleeding. The procedure allowed the patient to be discharged after 48 hours,” said Dr Yang Guosheng, director of the hospital’s urinary surgery department and chief surgeon of the operation.
Yang said his team has conducted some 3,000 such surgeries and the Japanese man is the first foreign patient to receive the procedure.
Dr Yang Guosheng from Shanghai East Hospital in surgery.
Dr Yang Guosheng with the Japanese patient after surgery.
