. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2016 Feb 22;196(2):507–513. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2016.02.080

Table 2.

The proportion of patients who underwent some degree of NVB preservation among all patients and among those who were potent prior to surgery, differentiated by various patient characteristics.

	All Patients		Functional erections at Baseline
Condition	N	Some degree of NVB preservation (95% CI)	N	Some degree of NVB preservation (95% CI)
All Patients	584	88% (85%–91%)	289	93% (90%–96%)
Biopsy Gleason 8–10	450	88% (85%–91%)	222	94% (90%–97%)
Total PSA>20 ng/mL	106	86% (78%–92%)	49	92% (80%–98%)
Primary Biopsy Gleason 5	24	63% (41%–81%)	11	82% (48%–98%)
Clinical T3	153	82% (75%–88%)	77	88% (79%–95%)