Nayuka Matsuyama, Taku Naiki, Shuzo Hamamoto, Yosuke Sugiyama, Yasue Kubota, Takashi Hamakawa, Toshiki Etani, Shoichiro Iwatsuki, Kazumi Taguchi, Yuya Ota, Masakazu Gonda, Maria Aoki, Toshiharu Morikawa, Taiki Kato, Atsushi Okada, Takahiro Yasui
BACKGROUND: The aim was to investigate the incidence and clinical predictive factors of de novo overactive bladder (OAB) after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP), including a Retzius-sparing (RS) approach, in the same period at a single institution. METHODS: Of a total of 113 patients with localized prostate cancer, 81 received conventional RARP (CON-RARP) and 32 received RS-RARP at our institution. The basic characteristics data of patients and self-assessment questionnaires, including IPSS and OABSS, were obtained preoperatively and 1, 3, and 6 months after RARP...
October 11, 2023: Diagnostics