Sustainable functional urethral reconstruction improves early urinary continence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a randomised controlled trial.

Journal: BJU international
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of sustainable functional urethral reconstruction (SFUR) on early recovery of urinary continence (UC) after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

Authors

  • Zepeng Jia
    Department of Urology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.
  • Zeyu Chen
    Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA. zeyuchen@csu.edu.cn.
  • Yifan Chang
    Department of Urology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military University, Shanghai, China.
  • Cheng Wu
    Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. Electronic address: wuc@tsinghua.edu.cn.
  • Min Qu
    Department of Urology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.
  • Xinwen Nian
    Department of Urology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.
  • Xianqi Shen
    Department of Urology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.
  • Yun Zhang
    Biology Institute, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, China.
  • Shouyan Tang
    Department of Urology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.
  • Yan Wang
    College of Animal Science and Technology, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing, China.
  • Xu Gao
    National Research Base of Intelligent Manufacturing Service, School of Management Science and Engineering, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, 400067, China; Chongqing Water Group Co. Ltd., Chongqing, 400042, China. Electronic address: hughgao@outlook.com.