Publications by authors named "Andrea Dagry"
Article Synopsis
- Prostate cancer can be treated with two methods: brachytherapy and HIFU, both of which are less invasive than surgery.
- A study looked at patient records from France in 2019 and 2020 to understand why people were hospitalized after these treatments.
- It was found that patients treated with HIFU had more complications and higher hospital admission rates compared to those treated with brachytherapy, especially for issues like infection and bleeding.
Purpose: In France, transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is still the most commonly used surgical treatment for medium sized benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), but the Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP) and laser vaporization procedures are becoming more common. For these three surgical procedures, we evaluate the initial complications, the short term (3 months) and the 4-12-month postoperative complications necessitating re-hospitalization.
Methods: From the French national hospital data base (PMSI-MCO), all hospitalizations for BPH treatment in 2018 were extracted.