The urology department at Ochsner offers top-notch care in everything related to urology. This includes advanced treatments like robotic surgery, using shock waves to break up kidney stones, and laser treatments. Ochsner Health is nationally ranked in the nation’s top 10% in Urology care by U.S. News & World Report.
Conditions We Treat
Prostate Cancer
- Robotic radical prostatectomy
Kidney (Renal) Cancer
- Robotic partial nephrectomy
Sexual Dysfunction, Peyronie’s Disease and Male Infertility
- Male sexual dysfunction (including erectile dysfunction or impotence)
- Penile prosthesis (penile implant) surgery, including difficult and redo prosthetic surgery
- Erectile dysfunction (impotence)
- Peyronie’s disease (penile curvature)
- Vasectomy
- Hypogonadism (low sex hormones)
- Low testosterone
- Androgen insufficiency (low male hormones)
- Male infertility
- Vasectomy reversal
- Microscopic varicocelectomy (treating swollen veins in the scrotum)
- Minimally invasive techniques of sperm extraction
- Assisted reproductive technologies
Bladder Dysfunction
- Bladder cancer
- Advanced robotics and reconstructive techniques
- Bladder removal
- Continent urinary diversion
Benign Prostate Disease
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH – noncancerous enlarged prostate)
- Prostatitis (inflamed prostate gland)
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Laser surgery
- Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS)
Stone Disease
- Medical and surgical management
- Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL – break up kidney stones)
- Ureteroscopy (upper urinary tract examination)
- Minimally invasive techniques
- Laser surgical techniques
- Metabolic evaluation for stone disease
- Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (kidney stone removal)
Female Pelvic Medicine and Voiding (Urinating) Dysfunction
- Female urology
- Urinary incontinence (male and female)
- Overactive bladder
- Voiding dysfunction – neurogenic bladder, dysfunctional voiding
- Pelvic organ prolapse – cystocele, rectocele, vaginal vault prolapse, uterine prolapse
- Specialized bladder studies – video-fluoro-urodynamic
- Reconstruction surgery-ureter, bladder
- Pelvic pain-pelvic floor dysfunction, interstitial cystitis
- Specialized treatments-bladder botox injections, neuromodulation (interstim, percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation)
- Male and female sling procedures
- Artificial urinary sphincter in males
- Bladder pacemakers (interstim therapy)
- Continent urinary diversion
- Robotic assisted laparoscopic abdominal sacral colpopexy
- Augmentation cystoplasty
Urological Oncology
- Prostate cancer, including robotic and laparoscopic radical nerve-sparing prostatectomy, brachytherapy (radioactive seed implants), external beam radiation therapy
- Bladder cancer, including continent urinary diversion and laser ablation
- Renal cell carcinoma, robotic and laparoscopic partial nephrectomy, cryoablation and tumors involving the vena cava
- Testicular cancer with retroperitoneal node dissection
- Adrenal tumors
Pediatric Urology
- Hypospadias
- Vesico ureteral reflux
- Neonatal hydronephrosis
- Pediatric renal masses
- Enuresis (bed-wetting)
- Children with myelodysplasia (spina bifida)
- Pediatric obstruction
- Voiding dysfunction
- Incontinence
