LASER ABLATION EXPERIENCE IN WOMEN AT POSTMENOPAUSAL PERIOD WITH URINARY BLADDER LEUKOPLAKIA

Abstract

THE AIM: increase of treatment efficacy of urinary bladder leukoplakia in women at postmenopausal period. PATIENTS AND METHODS. For 34 patients aged from 52 to 74 years were carried out check-up, diagnostic and treatment of chronic cystitis grouped with urinary dder leukoplakia in urology clinic. All women with pathological diagnosis “urinary bladder leukoplakia” were preformed laser ablation of mucosal changes by laser system with wave length 970 nm. RESULTS. Urinary bladder changed mucosa laser ablation efficiency was proved. It clinically manifested by decreasing of pain syndrome, reduction of dysuria, improvement of life quality. CONCLUSION. Safety and minimal invasiveness of the technique, absence of intraoperative complications, rapidly recovery in postoperative period are unquestionable efficacy of laser ablation of mucosal changes of the bladder in older women.