Transvesical Harris-Hryntschak prostatectomy with primary bladder closure and local vasoconstriction.

The simple, rapid and satisfactory method of the transvesical Harris-Hryntschak open prostatectomy is described. When this technique is used bleeding is reduced to an average of 85 ml. and visibility is improved by the local injection of a synthetic vasoconstrictor, ornithine-8 vasopressin, before enucleation. Hermostasis is obtained by tamponade with fine sutures occluding the bladder neck. Bladder closure is with heavy watertight, purse-string sutures. A "time and motion" study has reduced the usual operating time to 15 to 20 minutes with an intraoperative transfusion rate of 2.3%.