Table 3.
Functional outcomes for all patients, by age and by NS category
| Parameters | All patients n = 529 |
≤ 55 yo (n = 207) |
> 55 yo (n = 322) |
P-value for age | Partial NS (n = 138) |
Full NS (n = 391) |
P-value for NS degree |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sexually active n (%) | < 0.001 | 0.004 | |||||
| Yes | 434 (82%) | 186 (90) | 248 (77) | 102 (74%) | 333 (85%) | ||
| Median erection rating (0–10) | 7 (5–8) | 8 (7 – 9) | 7 (4 – 8) | < 0.001 | 7 (3–8) | 7 (6–9) | 0.002 |
| Median SHIM score | 18 (12–20) | 20 (15–21) | 15 (9–20) | < 0.001 | 15 (6–20) | 18 (13–20) | 0.047 |
| PDE-5i use | 248 (47%) | 113 (55%) | 135 (42%) | 0.006 | 56 (41%) | 192 (49%) | 0.11 |
| Mechanical support | 99 (19%) | 36 (17%) | 63 (20%) | 0.6 | 26 (19) | 73 (19%) | 1 |
| AUA score (n = 408)* | 1 (0–3) | 1 (0 – 4) | 1 (1 – 3) | 0.8 | 1 (1–3) | 1 (0–3) | 1 |
*408 patients had recent AUASS collected