The urology department at the St. Katharinen Hospital in Frankfurt am Main is one of the largest in the Rhine-Main area. One major area of surgical focus is the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia using laser therapy – holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP).
The Frankfurt Rhine-Main Laser Center has been set up at the St. Katharinen Hospital as a pan-regional center for procedures of this kind. Chief Physician in Urology, Dr. Steffen Relecker, is a renowned specialist in the field of laser therapy due to his many years of experience and the large number of procedures he has performed. Dr. Relecker employs the latest laser techniques in urological surgery.