BACKGROUND Transurethral resection of the prostate underwent significant technical improvements during the last decades, with major impact on the incidence of intra and postoperative complications. OBJECTIVES The objective of the study was to analyse the early complications and to predict immediate outcomes of transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) in a single tertiary care institute. M...

The aim of this work was to investigate the microbial causes, incidence, duration, risk factors and clinical implications of bacteraemia occurring during transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) surgery to better inform prophylaxis strategies. An ethically approved, prospective, cohort study of patients undergoing TURP was conducted. Clinical information and follow-up details were collect...

OBJECTIVE Determine how serum prostate-specific antigen (t-PSA) levels and free PSA (f/t PSA) ratio change following transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty men with a mean age of 67.0 +/- 4.2 years (range 46 to 84 years) underwent TURP for BPH between May 2005 and October 2005. Preoperative assessment included symptom evaluation with the International Pro...

conclusions lidocaine does not have additive effects on duration and quality of spinal anesthesia with bupivacaine in those undergoing turp. results both study groups were comparable regarding the baseline characteristics. we did not find any difference between the two study groups regarding the duration of anesthetic block reaching the maximum level (p = 0.433) and duration of decreasing it to...

PURPOSE We conducted a systematic review of randomized controlled trials evaluating the efficacy and safety of laser prostatectomy techniques compared to transurethral resection of the prostate for symptomatic benign prostatic obstruction. MATERIALS AND METHODS We searched MEDLINE, the Cochrane library and reference lists of retrieved studies to identify randomized trials of 6 months or great...

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 o...

Metastatic malignant melanoma of the prostate is extremely rare in clinical practice, and only one case has been reported in the English literature in the past 30 years. We report a case of malignant melanoma that metastasized to the prostate and review the current literature. A 50-year-old man with a history of malignant melanoma metastasis to the left axilla, which was excised 3 years ago, pr...

PURPOSE This study was to evaluate the characteristics of selective spinal anesthesia using 1 mg of bupivacaine combined with fentanyl or sufentanil in elderly patients undergoing transurethral resection of prostate. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty-six patients were randomized into two groups. The Fentanyl group received 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine 0.2 mL+fentanyl 20 μg+5% dextrose 1.4 mL, and th...

Study sample Power calculations were not utilised to determine the sample size. The study sample consisted of 69 hospitalised TURP patients, 32 in the CP group and 37 in the control (non-CP) group. The mean age was 70.4 years (range: 54 88; median 69) for the CP group and 71.9 years (range: 52 87; median 71) for the control group. The seriousness of the condition (mean volume of the affected ar...

INTRODUCTION Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is regarded as the gold standard surgical treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The completeness of TURP may be assessed indirectly by estimation of the weight of glandular tissue removed. This parameter is often lower than expected. Tissue vaporisation in the course of TURP could be a contributory cause. AIM To quantitat...