Transperineal prostate biopsies for diagnosis of prostate cancer are well tolerated: a prospective study using patient-reported outcome measures
Autor: | Karan Wadhwa, Lina Carmona-Echeveria, Timur Kuru, Gabriele Gaziev, Eva Serrao, Deepak Parashar, Julia Frey, Ivailo Dimov, Jonas Seidenader, Pete Acher, Gordon Muir, Andrew Doble, Vincent Gnanapragasam, Boris Hadaschik, Christof Kastner |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Zdroj: | Asian Journal of Andrology, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 62-66 (2017) |
Druh dokumentu: | article |
ISSN: | 1008-682X 1745-7262 |
DOI: | 10.4103/1008-682X.173453 |
Popis: | We aimed to determine short-term patient-reported outcomes in men having general anesthetic transperineal (TP) prostate biopsies. A prospective cohort study was performed in men having a diagnostic TP biopsy. This was done using a validated and adapted questionnaire immediately post-biopsy and at follow-up of between 7 and 14 days across three tertiary referral hospitals with a response rate of 51.6%. Immediately after biopsy 43/201 (21.4%) of men felt light-headed, syncopal, or suffered syncope. Fifty-three percent of men felt discomfort after biopsy (with 95% scoring |
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