Study time

2010.10-2019.8

Country

Japan

Object

patients with local_x005fized prostate cancer and no metastases underwent RARP

Inclusion criteria

The exclusion criteria were patients who had undergone RARPP <24 months earlier; had not completed the IIEF questionires preopera_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005ftively; had undergone preoperative or postoperative hormone therapy and salvage radiation; and stopped PDE-5i medication earlier than 6 months postoperatively

Sample size

257

Topic classification

Sexual function

Keypoint

The present findings suggest that robot-assisted radical prostatectomy patients who undergo not only nerve sparing, but also those who undergo patial nerve sparing could benefit from penile rehabilitation using a phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor.

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