Publications by authors named "Raisa S Abrams-Pompe"
Background: The European Association of Urology (EAU) has proposed a risk stratification for patients harboring biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical prostatectomy (RP).
Objective: To assess whether this risk stratification helps in choosing patients for salvage radiotherapy (SRT).
Design, Setting, And Participants: Analyses of 2379 patients who developed BCR after RP (1989-2020), within ten European high-volume centers, were conducted.
Background: Ensuring future urological care at the interface between out- and inpatient care is challenging due to demographic developments with an increasing proportion of urological diseases, the simultaneous threat of a shortage of physicians, and the increasing outpatient treatment of complex urological diseases.
Objectives: The cross-sectoral cooperation model between a university maximum care provider and the urologic joint practice with a hospital affiliation (BAG) presented below can serve as an ideal model for outpatient-inpatient care.
Materials And Methods: Since 2016, there has been close cooperation between the BAG in Winsen/Buchholz and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE).
Purpose: Positive surgical margins (PSM) represent a poor prognostic factor at radical prostatectomy (RP). To investigate the impact of PSM, its length, the focality and the Gleason grade at the PSM, on the oncologic outcomes in nonorgan-confined RP patients.
Methods: Within a high-volume center database, we identified patients who harbored non-organ-confined (pT3) prostate cancer (PCa) at RP between 2010 and 2016.
Article Synopsis
- The study aims to assess a standardized and less invasive method for explanting artificial urinary sphincters (AUS) due to cuff erosion, analyzing the success and urethral stricture rates.
- Data from patients who had AUS implanted for stress urinary incontinence between 2009 and 2015 were collected, noting that explantation was done without additional surgical procedures like urethroplasty.
- Results showed a low urethral stricture rate (8.3%) after a median follow-up of 18.7 months, indicating the approach could be a safe and effective option in cases of AUS cuff erosion.
Background: Organ-confined prostate cancer (CaP) at radical prostatectomy (RP) is associated with good long-term outcomes. However, information for aggressive Gleason organ-confined CaP is scant. To investigate the impact of Gleason grade group (GG) 4-5 on long-term oncologic outcomes after RP.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Management of newly diagnosed prostate cancer (PCa) is guided in part by accurate clinical staging. The role of imaging, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), in initial staging remains controversial.
Objective: To systematically review the studies of MRI and/or PET/CT in the staging of newly diagnosed PCa with respect to tumor (T), nodal (N), and metastatic (M) staging (TNM staging).