Our services
Novant Health Urology Partners – Southport serves adults of all ages suffering from urologic cancers and urologic conditions. Whether a condition is causing you pain or embarrassment or affecting your overall health, we are here to help. We also offer urologic procedures including minimally invasive surgery using the state-of-the-art da Vinci Surgical System.
Our providers have devoted their training and education to urology and your urologic health. They continually work to stay up-to-date on the very latest urological procedures and treatments.
Conditions we regularly diagnose, manage and treat include:
- Voiding dysfunction (when the bladder is unable to empty completely; sometimes marked by frequent urges to urinate)
- Incontinence (when the bladder leaks or becomes unable to store urine properly; sometimes marked by uncontrolled urination or a sudden urge to urinate)
- Enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH; growth of the male reproductive gland that makes the fluid that carries sperm; can lead to an inability to urinate, incontinence, painful urination or a sudden urge to urinate)
- Kidney stone disease (when substances normally occurring in urine become concentrated and form masses, which can stay in the kidney or travel down the urinary tract; can cause painful urination, blood in urine, or lower back or abdominal pain)
- Bladder cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Renal cancer (kidney cancer)
- Testicular cancer
- Male infertility or sexual dysfunction
Procedures and treatments we offer include:
- Robotic surgery for urologic cancers, and prostate and kidney diseases
- Vasectomy procedures (to permanently prevent sperm from being ejaculated)
- Outpatient prostate and kidney stone surgery
- Shockwave lithotripsy (to break up kidney stones)
- PNCL surgery (percutaneous nephrolithonomy; a kidney stone treatment for large kidney stones)
- Urolift BPH treatment (an in-office treatment for an enlarged prostate that works by increasing the opening of the urethra)
- Blood tests
- Urinalysis
- Semen analysis
- Sperm function testing
- Hormone testing
- Ultrasound biopsy for prostate cancer