ECCO Medical provides the highest level of expertise and personalized patient care in endovascular treatment and interventional radiology. We specialize in arterial disease, prostate enlargement, game-changing liver cancer treatments, men’s and women’s health, and vein/leg issues. Our caring staff, leading-edge technology and safe, outpatient setting benefit every patient we serve. The most common conditions we treat at our outpatient endovascular clinic include: • PAD - Peripheral Arterial Disease • Liver Cancer • BPH - Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia • UFE - Uterine Fibroids • Venous Issues • Enlarged Prostate • Leg and Calf Pain or Cramps Our leading-edge treatments include but are not limited to: • PAE - Prostatic Artery Embolization • Y90 Radioembolization • Uterine Artery Embolization
Gonna be contacting ECCO Medical soon ... I'm not at the critical stage yet with the running to the bathroom but, it's not too far off. Would rather get thing addressed sooner rather than later 👊🏻
Hello, if you are interested in having the procedure through our clinic you may call us at 720-668-8818 and we can answer any questions regarding cost.
2 questions, is PAE an alternative if you have Median Lobe from the prostate into the bladder? If you had a vericocele embolization, can you also have a PAE procedure?
I had PAE over 2 years ago. It freed me from Tamsolsin for 2 years. But now going back on it. Any advice? Get second procedure? Take meds for 2 years and then see what is available?
An infection 3 months after would not be related to the UFE. The risk window is 10 days so we prescribe our patients an antibiotic for 14 days to eliminate that risk.
Procedure is pain less but the recovery is PAINFUL.. Almost went to my cabinet looking for some Oxy or something. Very very painful for first 5-6 hours then diminish as Edwardsierra4709 says below. Don't know why they can't give stronger pain meds.
Dr Kovaleski. I had a partial knee replacement about 15 years ago. I have a lot of pain and arthritis in that knee. My knee doctor says the only thing I can do now is a full knee replacement. Do you think there is a chance that embolization can relieve the arthritic pain in my knee? BTW. I am seriously considering PAE for my 95 gram prostate. I feel like your clinic would be the best option available for this, you know like the best in America. I read a lot of comments on videos like this one on various channels. PAE seems to work for many, but not so much for others. I kinda attribute the negative comments to the "pilot" so to speak. It is such an intricate procedure, I feel like success or failure has a lot to do with who is doing the procedure. That is why, if I do decide on PAE vs Aquablation, I am willing to drive 9 hours to your clinic. I called your office and talked to Cheyenne. I hope you are paying her well, because she is a wonderful "first contact" kind of person. My local Urology clinic seems to be good at Aquablation, but I am not so sure about PAE there. They are just beginning to offer it. If I decide on PAE, I will probably travel to Lone Tree for it. I don't think there is any clinic anywhere near me that has that GE machine that you folks have, nor the expertise in flying it. I tend to overuse the "pilot" analogy. I spent my working career in technology and learned that most technology issues are caused by pilot error. Users doing silly things.
There is definitely a chance that GAE can relieve your knee pain. However, GAE is not considered to be a definitive treatment for arthritic knee issues, but rather a temporizing measure to alleviate symptoms for up to a year, thereby allowing an improvement in quality of life with fewer doctor's visits. We can definitely treat your prostate issues. 95 grams is a rather large gland. Aquablation can have decreased efficacy with larger glands, and usually will require multiple treatments. As far as reviews go - in my opinion, expectations need to be agreed upon and understood by both parties before a procedure is done. Some patients feel as if any medical treatment should be 100% effective every single time. The hard truth - no medical treatment is perfect, and they ALL have failure rates. While a procedure like PAE has proven to be one of the most effective treatments for BPH, it still may not provide all of the relief a patient may anticipate receiving. What we know is that it's safe, as effective as any surgical option, has lower complication rates, and no risk of impotence. - Dr. Kovaleski
I live in Northeastern Ohio and I'm not finding doctors here like Dr. Nutting. I wonder what a plane ticket to there and back along with a week's room and board added to the bill would run. That seems the only way someone from Ohio could get the procedure? Or are there Doctors recommended that do the procedure in Ohio? I already had a problem with the doctor who took care of me nor would let him do any procedure on me again. After all, when I ended up with a problem he threw me under the bus saying nothing they could do for me.
we are sorry to hear about your poor experience with your physician in Ohio. We treat many out of state patients and work with a local hotel on medical discounts. Our out of state patients typically fly/drive in the day before the procedure and are able to head home 1-2 days after the procedure.
Amazing, the advances of medical science and PAE is one of them. A procedure much easier for the patient than other options. I had mine done on Oct 20th. BUT, as Paul Harvey used to say “and here’s the rest of the story”. I’ll start with PAIN - for a day and one half after the procedure you will feel pain. Similar to a metal shaft being shoved from your rectum to your bladder. It hurts but after that time period it starts to diminish. Actually mine took 4 days to go away. FREQUENCY - if you think you had to go pee a lot before the procedure, wait until after. Easily twice or three times as often. BURNING - oh yes, yes, yes. FEELING - along with the frequency goes the constant feeling that you have to deficate but you don’t. Day 7 - pain is less but still there, had to call doctor for additional meds. But given the horrendous recovery of other procedures, DEFINITELY worth doing. THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. GOD Bless.
@servingcommonsense4379 doing well. Frequency is down to normal although every now and then there's a quick run to the bathroom. Still have a little bit of burning and feeling of needing a bowel movement. MRI scheduled for April.
Hope all that smooths out. I have done a lot of research and am not hearing a real tough recovery from Aquablation recipients. Statements lean more toward positive results.
Hi Dwight, there are plans that approve authorization for the procedure. We would be happy to discuss it with you over the phone! Our clinic phone number is 720-668-8818
Hi Thomas, An MRI scan of your prostate is what Dr. Nutting uses at ECCO Medical to confirm the size and whether you are a good candidate for the PAE procedure.
This sounds familiar ... AND HORRIBLE. The PAE is a local anesthesia operation where you are awake and they threat a catheter into your leg veins and up and around and cut off arteries to your prostate and it dies back. I was reading about that .. and it sound scary, but you look find so I guess it works. Does it kill your prostate function? How are other things. I am just going through this and learning about it ... and it is all a huge shock. Never had so much pain in my life as that Foley Catheter.
PAE is performed under conscious sedation. Patients are sleepy but comfortable. No breathing tube. 90% of foley catheters can be removed 1 month after prostate embolization.
@@charlesnutting9036 I read that statistically a catheter inserted for 3 weeks has a 90% chance of a serious UTI, Urinary Tract Infection. Also, the catheter itself can affect your sexual function, if you care about that.
Caution!! I had a PAE procedure done at Alate Health in Houston by Dr. Doe in 2021. It was a complete FAIL! No improvement to date (8/19/22) All I got out of that procedure was a lot of discomfort and an ambulance ride to the hospital with a blood clot in my very swollen leg! Spent 2 days in the hospital. Another Radiologist fixed the blood clot. He also told me that blood clots after that procedure are not uncommon!
@@charlesnutting9036 yesterday a doctor offerred me the electric chair. He called it something else e.g. electropulse chair or electromagnetic chair. In theory it sounds like a better option. But I don't see people talking about it on YT.
This procedure (prostatic artery embolization) is performed by a procedural radiologist. It consist in inserting a caterer in the iliac artery (right and/or left) and guiding this caterer all the way through to the prostatic artery (right and/or left). Once there, the caterer releases a number of micro spheres whose mission is to cause an embolism on a part of the prostate, causing thereby the excess prostatic tissue in the transitional zone of the prostate to die for lack of blood. This is done on the left side and on the right side, or maybe on only one side at the discretion of the procedural radiologist. The results are mixed. Improvement is felt soon after the procedure and may last a couple of months or more. I think it is advisable to read upon, ask other patients who had this procedure done and really make sure that this is the right thing for you. It is definitely not a cure for all.
@@justgivemethetruth I've known cases where it only lasted two or three months before the symptoms returned as before. That is why I suggest do your own research asking men who have undergone the procedure. I also suggest to look into the Rezum procedure as probably a much better alternative.
@@msotil I was reading about Rezum and it is so new that there is not data about how long it lasts, nor is there any indication of how many treatments it takes to be effective and whether the cost they talk about is the cost to cure it or the cost for one treatment which may or may not work. I thought there were other methods than releasing microsphere into the body to clog up arteries. Putting foreign bodies into the body always seems to be problem in the long run, and especially tiny ones that are unaccounted for. I thought I read about other methods like stitching arteries closed or cauterizing them? Finding out about all this has suddenly become a priority, and I am not sure we really get the truth from YT videos. It's all about selling.
@@justgivemethetruth Rezum takes 5 minutes. It was developed in 2013. I had it done two years ago and still going fine. It is so quick and simple that it should be an inexpensive procedure, which is why it may not be so attractive to urologists. Previously I tried embolization; it lasted two months.
@@msotil YIKES .... 2 months? What I saw online for cost of Rezum was like $2500 ... and I have no idea if insurance will pay for that. Their standard is the TURP I think it is, but I've seen the videos on that and it just scrapes away your whole insides and seems like it does permanent damage to your urination and ejaculation. Again, I don't know and I don't know what to trust on the Internet because now almost all of it is BS. Seems like anything they do, or qualifies even as a thing should last longer than 2 months.
I have tried numbers drugs but none worked for me, i saw an advertisement about Dr ogbebor herbal centre On RU-vid,i tried his supplement and its been years now ,i do not the symptoms anymore.
@@christophdenner8878 still in progess and has not been measured but definitely symptoms lessening, took 2 years of off and on keto and 2 months of strict keto with zero dairy
@@jimbeaver27 I started the same regimen a few weeks ago and will have my prostate volume checked at least yearly. Starting at 53 ml, which is clearly too much for my age.
I am also improving by cutting out dairy, one meal a day fasting and a healthy diet. Not yet back to full flow, but much improved. The diet also helps me with weight control and general well being. Another tip I have is to take cold showers or swims in the sea which I think helps with general inflammation. Good luck to all of you.
I didn't have BHP but ever since is went off sugars and more onto keto /carnivore diet my urine flow has increased to flows like 20 years ago. The accompanying weight loss is also a plus..
Just makes him seem like a real human being talking about a difficult topic. I know it's a testimonial to get sales, but I thought it seemed genuine coming from a real person. many would agree with me that's better than some overly polished presentation. Maybe you expected him to get botox and fake teeth, too.
Hi Bob, patients typically have relief from their symptoms within 2-4 weeks after the procedure. You can learn more by visiting our website eccomedical.com/conditions/benign-prostatic-hyperplasia/
