Prostate Health Packages

 

Minimally Invasive Prostate Surgery: Krongrad Institute of Miami and the Caribbean

 
Roughly half of all men over 60 will develop an enlarged prostate, a condition that leads to difficulties with urination and can lead to cancer of the prostate.

HTG is proud to feature Krongrad Institute in its provider network for prostate surgery. The Krongrad Institute has been in the business of prostate cancer surgery for a long time. In 1999 Dr. Krongrad and his team developed the technical manual for laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) , and introduced minimally invasive prostate surgery to the US. Patients of Krongrad Institutes’ groundbreaking minimally invasive prostate surgery include Pat Robertson, baseball star Ken Griffey Sr, and Super Bowl champion Steeler Robin Cole. 

The Krongrad Institute believes in the importance of medical tourism as cost-effective a means to improving access to prostate surgical care. However, quality will always be the most consideration when talking about radical prostatectomy or prostate cancer operation. Given the relatively high stakes of a prostate cancer surgery decision, affordability, while important, must necessarily play a supporting role to quality. 

Working together, Health Travel Guides and Krongrad Institute deliver the two key objectives of prostate cancer surgical care: broader access to top prostate surgery facilities coupled with the highest levels of surgeon experience in prostate surgical care. We welcome prostate surgery patients from all over the world, especially Americans, English, Canadians and Caribbean Islanders.  Click here to visit our section on LRP.

Click here to read Dr. Arnon Krongrad's Just for Men blog Articles on prostate health.

Green Light Prostate Surgery Mexcio

 

Health Travel Guides' network urologist, Dr. Pedro Cueto, is using the newest FDA-approved laser technology to treat enlarged prostate with less risk and bleeding and a shorter hospital stay compared to traditional prostate surgery methods.

The new GreenLight PVP (photoselective vaporization of the prostate) system uses a special, patented (and FDA-approved) green-light laser a more effective wavelength than in other lasers to remove the excess tissue of the enlarged prostate. The procedure is minimally invasive to the prostate surgery patient: a laser fiber is threaded into the urethra to deliver the green-light energy, then removed.

GreenLight treatment for enlarged prostate appears to have the same success rate as standard TURP (removal of prostrate) in alleviating symptoms, with less risk of bleeding and a shorter hospital stay. Studies of the GreenLight procedure, which provide about five years of data, show that symptom improvements last at least that long.