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. 2023 Feb 8;12(4):1358. doi: 10.3390/jcm12041358

Table 3.

Post-operative outcomes and UI outcomes at both short- and mid-term follow-up.

Variables n = 925
Follow-up
Duration of f-up, months, median (IQR) 17 (11-27)
Biochemical recurrence (BCR)at last follow-up 63 (6.8)
  -Of patients with BCR:
  -adjuvant radiotherapy (in 10 cases concomitant ormonotherapy) 27 (42)
  -salvage radiotherapy 8 (12)
  -systemic ormonotherapy 9 (14)
Early (30 day) continence rate, n (%) *
  Fully continent, no pad/die 766 (82.8)
  1 or more pads/dies 159 (17.2)
Patients with moderate/severe incontinence within 30 days
  2 pads/dies 125 (78.6)
  3 pads/dies 26 (16.4)
  >3 pads/dies 8 (5)
Continence at last follow-up days, n (%)
  Fully continent, no pad/die 885 (95.5)
  1 or more pads/dies 40 (5.5)
Patients with moderate/severe incontinence after 30 days
  2 pads/dies 25 (62.5)
  3 pads/dies 14 (35)
  >3 pads/dies 1 (2.5)
Clavien–Dindo (CD) > 2 (within 30 days), n (%)
  CD IIIa
(10 cases requiring percutaneous drainage for symptomatic lymphocele and 5 requiring endoscopic catheter positioning for mdc spread)
15 (1.6)
  CD IIIb
(1 case clot retention requiring endoscopic evacuation and 1 case requiring re-intervention for uretrovesical anastomosis)
2 (0.2)
  CD IV
(1 case of post-operative cerebrovascular ischemia requiring neurovascular thrombolysis)
1 (0.1)
Claviend Dindo (CD) > 2 after 30 days), n (%)
  CD IIIa
(13 cases requiring percutaneous drainage for symptomatic lymphocele, 5 percutaneous drainages for abdominal abscessus)
18 (1.9)
  CD IIIb
(13 endoscopic urethrotomy for endoscopic stricture, 4 paraumbilical haernia requiring surgical repair, 1 re-operation for bladder repair, 1 case requiring re-intervention for uretrovesical anastomosis and 1 case requiring endoscopic surgery for clip removal)
20 (2.1)
  CD IV
(1 case of acute abdomen for bowel strangulation)
1 (0.1)

* Evaluated on patients for whom it is possible to recover data on continence (n = 873) also by means of a remote interview.