King Charles will be undergoing prostate surgery next week. This was announced by a spokesperson from Buckingham Palace: «Like thousands of men each year, the King will be treated for an enlarged prostate condition».
King Charles' prostate surgery, the official statement
The King's condition is benign, the Palace informs: «He will be admitted next week for a corrective procedure. His institutional commitments will be postponed for a small convalescence period».
According to the Daily Mail, the King wanted to make the details of his diagnosis public as encouragement to other men who might have the same symptoms. Among the commitments that will be postponed, a series of meetings at Dumfries House on Thursday and Friday of this week. On the web, however, an unsettling prophecy is bouncing around, according to which the King would abdicate by the end of this year due to a serious health problem. According to initial information, however, this would not be the case.
Kate Middleton's surgery
The news comes a few hours after the announcement of the surgery Kate Middleton underwent, a successful abdominal procedure that will require her to spend two weeks in hospital and a few months convalescing at home. All of the Princess of Wales' official commitments have also been cancelled.
Expert: surgery in 30% of cases
Benign prostatic hyperplasia, if neglected, can progress to cause urinary retention with the inability to empty the bladder. If caught in time, it can be treated with drugs. However, 30% of patients are resistant to therapies. In these cases, endoscopic intervention is performed, no longer invasively, without cuts to understand. The modern treatments of benign prostatic hyperplasia are two: vaporization of the prostate which requires 1 day of hospitalization, in sedation; tissue ablation through laser, after 3 days of hospitalization you can go home. The choice of treatment type is based on the volume of the prostate: small prostate vaporization, medium and large volume prostate laser ablation. The result is the same. Both interventions require a short convalescence. This is what Pierfrancesco Bassi, professor of Urology at the Catholic University of Rome, told Adnkronos Health after the news that King Charles III will undergo surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia next week.
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