The occurrence of impotence after prostate surgery is also determined by the patient’s age and his sexual potency before the prostatectomy. Many men do regain their ability to have spontaneous, unaided erections, but the ability will take time, perhaps as long as a year, to develop. Doctors...
We discuss that surgery affords accurate pathological staging, thereby improving the identification of patients for secondary therapies. Moreover, prostatectomy not only provides durable local disease control but in addition numerous contemporary surgical series in high-risk patients have shown radical ...
There are additional surgical outcomes you may want to talk about with your doctor. Please ask to discuss all important outcomes. Every surgery involves risk and you can read more about thoseassociated with prostatectomy. Questions you can ask your doctor ...
The risk is variable due to certain factors. You should discuss your individual risk with your urologist. For some men who have become impotent as a result of surgery there may be treatment to restore erections. This is usually given in the form of tablets. You can discuss this at your ...
[Clinical outcomes of laparoscopic radical prostatectomy for high risk prostate cancer]. To study the technique and clinical outcomes of laparoscopic radical prostatectomy for high risk prostate cancer. A total of 65 patients with high risk prostate cancer were treated with surgery in the First Affilia...
Cardiac risk index was assessed before the operation using American Heart Association guidelines and erectile function was assessed both preoperatively and 6 months after surgery. Patients with moderate to severe ED according to the five-item version of the International Index of Erectile Function were...
Open surgery is not used as often as robotic surgery, though, because it is more invasive and carries a greater risk of blood loss than robotic surgery. Robotic surgery is preferable because it allows surgeons to operate using small ports instead of cutting large open incisions. A small...
Today, surgery for these patients is often considered overtreatment. Since the issue of high risk prostate cancer, that was often undertreated (with androgen deprivation therapy or combined radiotherapy and androgen deprivation therapy), oncologic urologists have more and more focused on high risk ...
If cancer is suspected, a formal prostate biopsy should be performed before surgery is considered. If cystoscopy findings indicate that the obstructing adenoma primarily involves the median lobe, the suprapubic approach may be preferred to the retropubic technique, because the suprapubic procedure ...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook retropubic prostatectomy Urology A surgical procedure in which the prostate is excised in toto through an incision made in the abdominal wall McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The Mc...