Publications by authors named "Mark W Louie-Johnsun"
Article Synopsis
- The study examines the infection rates associated with transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate needle biopsies across multiple Australian centers to assess its safety as a diagnostic method for prostate cancer.
- Data were collected from seven centers, revealing that out of 12,240 biopsies, the overall infective complication rate was low at 0.86%, with no reported deaths and very few ICU admissions due to sepsis.
- While the findings suggest that TRUS biopsy is a safe procedure, further research directly comparing it to the trans-perineal approach is needed before making any shifts in recommended techniques.
Objectives: To analyse the Australian experience of high-volume Fellowship-trained Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy (LRP) surgeons.
Materials And Methods: 2943 LRP cases were performed by nine Australian surgeons. The inclusion criteria were a prospectively collected database with a minimum of 100 consecutive LRP cases.
Objective: To report the initial experience of one surgeon, with contemporary experience of both open radical prostatectomy (ORP) and reconstructive laparoscopy, in laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) in 1000 patients, and to investigate the rate of change of various outcome variables for this procedure with time.
Patients And Methods: Between March 2000 and December 2007, 1000 consecutive patients with clinical stage T < or = 3aN0M0 prostate cancer underwent LRP, either supervised (17%) or performed (83%), by one surgeon. The median prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level was 7.
Background: Radical cystectomy is universally accepted as the definitive treatment for muscle invasive bladder cancer and preventing stage progression in high-risk groups. There are few recent reviews outside of major international centres. We compared our institution's results with published literature.
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