Mr Tev Aho

Mr Tev Aho is a consultant urologist working in the NHS at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. He works pivately in Cambridge and at the Princess Grace Hospital in London. He specialises in treating men with bothersome urinary symptoms and catheter-dependent urinary retention due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). He is highly experienced at advising men who have BPH in order for them to feel comfortable in selecting the best treatment for their own personal situation. He offers a wide range of procedures in order to cater to any BPH scenario.

Mr Aho moved from New Zealand to the UK to become a Clinical Fellow in Uro-oncology at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge in 2003. The following year he was appointed Consultant Urological Surgeon. He is the most experienced surgeon in the UK for performing Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP). He has performed more than 4,000 HoLEP procedures with outcomes amongst the best in the world and which have been published in the international urological literature. Other urologists often refer patients with complex prostate problems to Mr Aho for HoLEP surgery, including men whose prostates are too large for other prostate disobstructing procedures and those who have had previous prostate procedures that have failed such as TURP, Urolift, rezum, greenlight prostatectomy and prostate artery embolisation. As a specialist Benign Prostatic Obstruction (BPO) surgeon Mr Aho also offers other BPO procedures including Ejaculation-sparing HoLEP, Urolift, Rezum and Aquablation.. He has been offering HoLEP since 2002, Ejaculation-sparing HoLEP since 2006, Urolift since 2015 and Rezum since 2020. He was one of the first surgeons to introduce Aquablation to the UK in 2016.

Mr Aho has been heavily involved in BPH research for many years.  He first became active in HoLEP research since the procedure's earliest days in New Zealand when he worked with the team who developed it . He introduced HoLEP to Cambridge in 2004, where it became and remains the treatment of choice for men seeking treatment for bothersome lower urinary tract symptoms and urinary retention.

Additionally, he commits a significant amount of his time to medical education. He lectures on HoLEP at national and international conferences and hosts an annual HoLEP course in Cambridge which has been held since 2005. He is also the founding president of the UK Holmium User Group (HUG) and has mentored many trainee doctors and consultant urologists in HoLEP since 2004.

Mr Aho was one of the first UK surgeons to perform Aquablation. He was an investigator for the first international randomised clinical trial assessing Aquablation (the WATER study) and continues to offer it as a treatment option for BPO.

Mr Aho's personal life is enriched with a wide range of interests including marathon running, wild swimming, military history, supporting the All Blacks rugby team, playing the cornet and trumpet and attending music festivals, the cinema and theatre.