Effect of Starting Penile Rehabilitation with Sildenafil Immediately after Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy on Erectile Function Recovery: A Prospective Randomized Trial
- Title
- Effect of Starting Penile Rehabilitation with Sildenafil Immediately after Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy on Erectile Function Recovery: A Prospective Randomized Trial
- Author
- 조정기
- Keywords
- penis; prostatectomy; robotic surgical procedures; erectile dysfunction; phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors
- Issue Date
- 2018-06
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, v. 199, no. 6, page. 1601-1606
- Abstract
- Purpose: It has not been clearly proved in real practice whether early rehabilitation with phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors starting immediately after radical prostatectomy improves erectile function recovery more effectively than delayed treatment with the same regimen. We performed a prospective randomized trial to identify this.Materials and Methods: Patients with prostate cancer and an IIEF-5 (International Index of Erectile Function-5) preoperative score of 17 or greater were randomly assigned to receive sildenafil 100 mg regularly twice per week for 3 months immediately after urethral catheter removal as the early group or only 3 months after nerve sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy as the delayed group. The study primary end point was the full erectile function recovery rate, defined as an IIEF-5 score of 17 or greater, during the 12 months.Results: Of the 120 randomized patients the proportion who achieved full recovery was significantly higher during the 12 months in the early group than in the delayed group (beta = 0.356, p <0.001, generalized estimating equation). After 9 months postoperatively the proportion of patients who achieved full recovery steadily increased to 41.4% at 12 months in the early group while patients in the delayed group showed no further improvement. Thus, full recovery was achieved in only 17.7% of patients at 12 months. Only early sildenafil treatment independently improved full recovery at 12 months (HR 2.943, p = 0.034).Conclusions: Our trial provides clinical data to suggest that earlier rehabilitation with phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors can contribute to the recovery of erectile function after radical prostatectomy in the clinical setting.
- URI
- https://www.auajournals.org/doi/10.1016/j.juro.2017.12.060https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/119034
- ISSN
- 0022-5347; 1527-3792
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.juro.2017.12.060
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