Saline-assisted fascial exposure (SAFE) technique to improve nerve-sparing in robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

Journal: BJU international
PMID: 38062880

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To provide a summary of our initial experience and assess the impact of the Saline-Assisted Fascial Exposure (SAFE) technique on erectile function (EF), urinary continence, and oncological outcomes after Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy (RALP).

Authors

  • Adriana M Pedraza
    Department of Urology, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • Raghav Gupta
    Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. hshafiee@bwh.harvard.edu.
  • Himanshu Joshi
    Department of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA.
  • Sneha Parekh
    Department of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, New York, USA.
  • Kacie Schlussel
    Department of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA.
  • Roy Berryhill
    Department of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA.
  • Basil Kaufmann
    Department of Urology University Hospital Zurich Zurich Switzerland.
  • Vinayak Wagaskar
    Department of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
  • Michael A Gorin
    Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York New York USA.
  • Mani Menon
  • Ashutosh K Tewari
    School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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