TABLE 4.

Comparison of complication rate, duration of catheter post‐operative, and length of stay between groups of patients according to grade group after holmium laser enucleation of the prostate.

	Overall 417 (100%)	BPH 377 (90.4%)	Low‐risk PCa 29 (7%)	High‐risk PCa 11 (2.6%)	p‐value
Acute urinary retention (%)	35 (8.4%)	32 (8.5%)	3 (10.3%)	0	0.561
Urinary tract infection (%)	31 (7.4%)	27 (7.2%)	3 (10.3%)	1 (9.1%)	0.802
Bladder neck stenosis (%)	8 (1.9%)	8 (2.1%)	0	0	0.649
Urethral stricture (%)	9 (2.2%)	6 (1.6%)	3 (10.3%)	0	0.007
Blood transfusions (%)	10 (2.4%)	9 (2.4%)	0	1 (9.1%)	0.244
Catheterization period (days)	1 [1–1]	1 [1–1]	1 [1–1]	1 [1–1]	0.589
Length of stay (days)	1 [1–1]	1 [1–1]	1 [1–1]	1 [1–1]	0.942

Abbreviations: BPH, benign prostatic hyperplasia; PCa, prostate cancer.

Note: Item in bold indicates statistically significant result (p‐value < 0.05).