Publications by authors named "Antoine Kass-Iliyya"
Background: The importance of 2-yr postradiotherapy prostate biopsy status remains uncertain.
Objective: To assess the value of 2 year post treatment biopsies in a randomised trial of radiotherapy dose escalation.
Design, Setting, And Participants: Between 1998 and 2001, 843 men with localised prostate cancer were randomised to receive either control-64Gy or escalated-74Gy conformal radiotherapy (CFRT) in the MRC RT01 trial in combination with 3-6-mo neoadjuvant androgen deprivation therapy.
Aim: To assess the correlation between retrograde leak point pressure (RLPP) and 24-hr pad weight (24PW) in men with post-prostatectomy incontinence.
Methods: We performed RLPP and 24PW measurements on 61 patients with a history of post-prostatectomy stress urinary incontinence (SUI). We examined the relationship of RLPP and 24PW.
Objective: To assess the long-term efficacy of polydimethylsiloxane (Macroplastique) injection (MPI) in the treatment of Mitrofanoff leakage secondary to valve incompetence.
Patients And Methods: Between 1995 and 2012, the records of 24 consecutive patients who underwent MPI for Mitrofanoff urinary leakage after continent cutaneous urinary diversion (CCUD) surgery were examined. All patients had a valve deemed of sufficient length (>2 cm) to attempt Macroplastique coaptation.
Article Synopsis
- Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) is a surgery for prostate cancer that can be improved as doctors gain experience.
- At one hospital, three surgeons performed 300 LRP surgeries, and they noticed that as they did more surgeries, the time needed for each operation and recovery time got shorter.
- The study showed that even though complications can happen, they are rare, and experience helps make the surgery safer and more effective.