. 2021 Jun 3;7(2):e83–e91. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1725155

Table 1. Triage of urologic surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Surgeries should be performed with high priority	Surgeries should be delayed
1. Radical cystectomy 2. Orchiectomy 3. Nephrectomy with selected criteria. 4. Nephroureterectomy 5. Adrenalectomy 6. Ureteral stent insertion for obstruction. 7. Infected artificial urinary sphincter explant. 8. Infected penile prosthesis explant. 9. Shunting for priapism. 10. Testicular detorsion/orchidopexy. 11. Scrotal abscesses/Fournier's gangrene debridement. 12. Penile/testicular fracture repair. 13. Ureteral injury/bladder perforation. 14. Deceased donor transplant. 15. Surveillance cystoscopy/diagnostic cystoscopy. 16. Post-chemotherapy retroperitoneal residual lymph nodes. 17. Radical prostatectomies in selected cases. 18. Intravesical BCG therapy for selected cases of bladder cancer.	1. Radical prostatectomies in selected cases. 2. BPH procedures. 3. Stress urinary incontinence. 4. Fistula repair. 5. Infertiliy surgeries. 6. Live donor transplants. 7. Peyronie's disease surgeries. 8. Penile prosthesis insertion. 9. Prostate biopsy. 10. Flexible cystoscopy. 11. Intravesical BCG therapy for selected cases of bladder cancer. 12. Inguinal hernia. 13. Circumcision. 14. Surgery for vesicoureteral reflux. 15. Pyeloplasty in UPJ obstruction without loss of differential function. 16. Urolithiasis without infection or obstruction.

Surgeries should be performed with high priority

Surgeries should be delayed

1. Radical cystectomy
2. Orchiectomy
3. Nephrectomy with selected criteria.
4. Nephroureterectomy
5. Adrenalectomy
6. Ureteral stent insertion for obstruction.
7. Infected artificial urinary sphincter explant.
8. Infected penile prosthesis explant.
9. Shunting for priapism.
10. Testicular detorsion/orchidopexy.
11. Scrotal abscesses/Fournier's gangrene debridement.
12. Penile/testicular fracture repair.
13. Ureteral injury/bladder perforation.
14. Deceased donor transplant.
15. Surveillance cystoscopy/diagnostic cystoscopy.
16. Post-chemotherapy retroperitoneal residual lymph nodes.
17. Radical prostatectomies in selected cases.
18. Intravesical BCG therapy for selected cases of bladder cancer.

1. Radical prostatectomies in selected cases.
2. BPH procedures.
3. Stress urinary incontinence.
4. Fistula repair.
5. Infertiliy surgeries.
6. Live donor transplants.
7. Peyronie's disease surgeries.
8. Penile prosthesis insertion.
9. Prostate biopsy.
10. Flexible cystoscopy.
11. Intravesical BCG therapy for selected cases of bladder cancer.
12. Inguinal hernia.
13. Circumcision.
14. Surgery for vesicoureteral reflux.
15. Pyeloplasty in UPJ obstruction without loss of differential function.
16. Urolithiasis without infection or obstruction.

Abbreviations: BCG, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; UPJ, uretero-pelvic junction.