Publications by authors named "Carmelo Destro Pastizzaro"

Objective: To report our experience using the Argus perineal sling from July 2015 to April 2018 for male stress urinary incontinence (SUI) after prostatic surgery. To evaluate the safety, efficacy and healthrelated quality of life in patients undergoing this procedure.

Patients And Methods: The positioning of an adjustable bulbourethral male sling provides a perineal incision, exposure of the bulbospongiosus muscle and the application of the sling bearing on it with transobturator passage of the two extremities with out-in technique.

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Purpose: Prostate specific antigen acceleration can be calculated as the slope of log prostate specific antigen vs time, where log is the natural logarithm. We determined the best interval in which prostate specific antigen acceleration can be calculated with the best result in terms of specificity and sensitivity for prostate cancer diagnosis.

Materials And Methods: Entered in the study were 741 men who underwent transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy with 12 or more cores and at least 3 prior consecutive prostate specific antigen measurements in at least 365 days.

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Purpose: We developed a predictive model that incorporates clinical data and prostate specific antigen kinetic from general practice to detect prostate cancer in patients with a previously negative prostate biopsy.

Materials And Methods: From January 2001 to January 2007 data on 419 men who underwent repeat prostate biopsy with 12 or more cores were used to develop the nomogram. From February 2007 to June 2007 data on 63 men with the same criteria were used to validate the nomogram.

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Objectives: To compare different tools for evaluate prostate-specific antigen (PSA) kinetics before prostate biopsy, such as PSA velocity, PSA slope, natural logarithm PSA slope (lnPSA slope), and PSA doubling time (PSADT).

Methods: This study was conducted involving 325 male patients evaluated with transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy of prostate. Patients with at least three consecutive PSA measurements taken in at least 24 months entered in the study.

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