Urinary continence rates are quite high and potency rates relatively high one year following laparoscopic prostatectomy. Nerve sparing surgery increases potency rates.
Laurent Salomon and colleagues from the urology departments of Henri Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, United States, collected questionnaires filled out by 100 patients who underwent laparoscopic radical prostatectomy from 1998 to 2001.
The questionnaires covered issues regarding urinary continence and erectile function. The patients filled them out before surgery and one, three, six, and 12 months after surgery. According to the results of the questionnaires, patients had attained 90 percent diurnal urinary continence and 97 percent nocturnal urinary continence over the first year following the surgery. Of 77 patients who were potent preoperatively and did not receive any adjuvant therapy, 49 percent could have erections sufficient for intercourse one year after surgery.
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