Make sure you truly get "MRI Guided" when you ask for an 'MRI Guided Biopsy'.

 Hi folks,

Hopefully this will prevent other of you from experiencing something I just went through.  Due to my previous Prostate Cancer Radiologist's decision to stop accepting insurance, this year for my 'MRI Guided Biopsy' I followed the advice of my current Urologist, Dr Carl Capelouto and let Northside Hospital do my 'MRI guided biopsy'.  The number of times he and the other Drs and Nurses corrected me to say "MRI Fusion Prostate Biopsy " should have been a clue, but for some reason it didn't sink in until I was in the operating room.  There was NO MRI machine present for the biopsy.  As I later (ie today) discovered, the MRI is only used as a "guide", and is "mapped" or "fused" with real-time ultrasound data to guide the Dr in where to target the biopsy efforts.  I don't recall it taking this long with my previous MRI guided biopsies, but today, Monday, 3 days after the biopsy, there's still blood present every time when I start to pee. 

More details on the differences between an 'MRI Guided Biopsy' and a 'Fusion Guided Targeted Biopsy' can be found at the following link on the Sperling Prostate Center's website:

MRI-Guided Targeted Biopsy vs Fusion Guided Targeted Biopsy

Be blessed,

Tom