Finasteride as a Neo-Adjuvant Treatment for TURP-Literature Review
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Hagerty, et al. [10] conducted the 1st prospective cohort study about the role of preoperative finasteride for 25 patients given finasteride for about 2-4 months and 50 controls without treatment. They followed both groups for 4 months and found that only 8.3% of patients underwent preoperative treatment experienced perioperative bleeding while 37% of the control group got bleeding during the operation. So, they concluded that preoperative finasteride decreases the bleeding rate, postoperative complication such as clot retention especially in Abstract
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