Perioperative platelet inhibition in transurethral interventions: TURP/TURB.

Purpose: To determine whether transurethral surgery under platelet inhibition is a feasible procedure. Before transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) or bladder tumours (TURB), the administration of platelet-inhibiting medication is often interrupted due to possible bleeding complications. We studied the performance of TURP and TURB under the current recommendations of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) on perioperative platelet inhibition.

Asystolic cardiac arrest during balloon insufflation for endoscopic extraperitoneal radical prostatectomy.

Background And Purpose: Hemodynamic changes during abdominal laparoscopic procedures have been described as multifactorial phenomena. We report the possible occurrence of bradycardia and asystolic cardiac arrest during insufflation of the balloon trocar as a rare and serious but reversible complication during endoscopic extraperitoneal radical prostatectomy (EERP) for management of localized prostate cancer.

Patients And Methods: Between 2003 and 2006, 430 patients underwent EERP for localized prostate cancer.

Diagnostic value of tumour marker regression models in stage 1 marker-positive testicular cancer.

The decay pattern and half-life period evaluation of serum tumour markers are useful parameters in the management of testicular cancer in clinic stage 1. Alpha-fetoprotein and human chorionic gonadotropin serum levels measured after orchiectomy can be used to predict the tumour stage. However, the optimal strategy for marker analysis after orchiectomy has not yet been defined.

Survival rates after radical cystectomy according to tumor stage of bladder carcinoma at first presentation.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to establish to what extent the survival rates of muscle-invasive bladder carcinoma are influenced by the tumor stage at initial presentation.

Patients And Methods: This study examined the clinical course of 230 patients who underwent radical cystectomy for bladder carcinoma from 1992 to 2002. The patients were divided into three groups according to the histological results of the initial and final transurethral tumor resection (TURB).