Patient Education

Procedure Library

Balanced, plain-language explanations of the procedures Dr. Farhan performs, including who is a candidate, the alternatives, the risks, and what recovery actually looks like.

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Prostate & BPH

HoLEP

A durable, size-independent treatment for an enlarged prostate.

HoLEP uses a holmium laser to remove the obstructing inner tissue of the prostate through the urethra, with no external incisions and a very low chance of needing repeat surgery.

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Continence

Artificial Urinary Sphincter

The reference standard for moderate to severe male stress incontinence.

An artificial urinary sphincter is an implanted device that restores control after prostate surgery or radiation, allowing you to urinate on your own schedule by pressing a small pump.

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Male Sling

A pump-free option for mild to moderate leakage after prostate surgery.

A male sling repositions and supports the urethra to restore continence without any device for you to operate.

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Female Sling

A short outpatient procedure for stress urinary incontinence in women.

A narrow strip of mesh or your own tissue supports the midurethra so leakage does not occur with coughing, sneezing, laughing, or exercise.

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Bladder Function

Bladder Botox

An office treatment for urgency and urgency incontinence that medication has not controlled.

Botox is injected into the bladder muscle to calm involuntary contractions, reducing urgency, frequency, and urgency leakage for roughly six to nine months at a time.

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Sacral Neuromodulation

A pacemaker-like therapy that retunes the nerve signals between the bladder and the brain.

A small implanted device gently stimulates the sacral nerve to treat urgency, urgency incontinence, non-obstructive urinary retention, and some bowel symptoms, and you test it before committing.

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Reconstruction

Urethroplasty

Definitive repair of urethral stricture rather than repeated dilation.

Urethroplasty reconstructs the narrowed segment of the urethra, often using a graft of tissue from inside the cheek, with far higher long-term success than repeat dilation or incision.

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Stone Disease

Ureteroscopy

Scope-based stone removal with no incisions.

A small scope is passed up to the stone and a laser breaks it into fragments that are removed or passed, treating stones in the ureter and kidney.

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PCNL

The most effective treatment for large and complex kidney stones.

Through a small tract in the flank, large stones are fragmented and removed directly from the kidney in a single procedure.

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Diagnostics

Urodynamics

The test that explains why the bladder is behaving the way it is.

Urodynamics measures how the bladder fills, stores, and empties so that treatment is chosen based on function rather than assumption.

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Additional procedure guides, downloadable patient handouts, and short educational videos from Dr. Farhan are being added to this library over time.

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