Urology & Urogynecology

Urology/Urogynecology Services at Baylor Plano

From kidney stones to prostate problems to incontinence, there are plenty of reasons you might need to see a urologist or urogynecologist. While they’re not necessarily symptoms you want to talk about, it can be hard to get help, if no one knows what you’re going through.  

But you can feel comfortable bringing your concerns to our team of experienced nurses and other health care professionals and the urologists and urogynecologists on the Baylor Plano medical staff. We treat the special urological health needs of both men and women using advanced technology to treat the following conditions: 

• Adult urinary tract conditions: Urinary tract infections (UTI) can happen in the bladder, kidneys, ureters or urethra. They can cause fever, flank (side) pain, chills and shaking, cloudy or strong-smelling urine, an urgent or frequent need to urinate, and a general ill feeling. Women have short urethras making them more prone to urinary tract infections than men.
• Fecal incontinence: This condition concerns the loss of bowel control, leading to an involuntary passage of stool. This can range from occasionally leaking a small amount of stool and passing gas, to completely losing control of bowel movements.
• Kidney stones: Kidney stones, solid masses made up of tiny crystals, strike both men and women, and can be more common in the summer when people may not drink enough fluids. Stones that are too big to pass on their own can be broken up with ultrasonic waves in a procedure called lithotripsy or with minimally invasive surgery.
• Male reproductive system disorders, including male infertility and erectile dysfunction.
• Prostate cancer: The prostate is a small walnut-sized gland that wraps around the urethra and makes up part of the male reproductive system. Men over age 50 are most at risk for cancer of the prostate, which is most often detected with a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test and confirmed with a biopsy. Treatment options include 
• da Vinci® robotic-assisted removal of the prostate, prostate brachytherapy or internal radiation, medication and monitoring.
• Prostate enlargement: Also called benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), an enlarging prostate can affect bladder control, resulting in a more frequent and urgent need to urinate. However, there is not a connection between BPH and prostate cancer. BPH can be treated with minimally invasive procedures, such as holmium laser ablation (HoLap).
• Sexual dysfunction (for women): Sexual dysfunction in women may involve a reduction in sex drive, a strong dislike of sexual activity, difficulty becoming aroused, inability to achieve orgasm, or pain with sexual activity or intercourse.
• Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are contagious diseases that can be transferred from one person to another through sexual intercourse or other sexual contact. These diseases include genital herpes, genital warts, HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and others.  
• Urinary tract stone disease: Also called bladder stones, approximately 95 percent of urinary tract stones occur in men and are the result of buildups of minerals in the bladder. 
• Urinary incontinence in men and women: Problems with urination are common in women, because pregnancy, childbirth, menopause and the female anatomy can conspire to cause problems. In fact, half of all women struggle with stress incontinence—the involuntary loss of urine that occurs during activities such as exercise, laughing or sneezing—during their lifetimes.
• Both men and women can experience urge incontinence, also called overactive bladder or overflow incontinence, which causes a strong, sudden need to urinate and urine leakage. 
• Urological cancers, including cancer of the bladder, kidney, prostate and testes. 
• Vasectomy and vasectomy reversal: A vasectomy is surgery to cut the vas deferens, the tubes that carry a man’s sperm from his scrotum to his urethra, so that sperm cannot move out of the testes. A man who has had a successful vasectomy cannot make a woman pregnant. 

For a referral to a urologist or urogynecologist on the Baylor Plano medical staff, click here. 

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