Transperineal prostate biopsies for diagnosis of prostate cancer are well tolerated: a prospective study using patient-reported outcome measures
- Karan Wadhwa
- Lina Carmona-Echeveria
- Timur Kuru
- Gabriele Gaziev
- Eva Serrao
- Deepak Parashar
- Julia Frey
- Ivailo Dimov
- Jonas Seidenader
- Pete Acher
- Gordon Muir
- Andrew Doble
- Vincent Gnanapragasam
- Boris Hadaschik
- Christof Kastner
DOIAbstract
We aimed to determine short-term patient-reported outcomes in men having general anesthetic transperineal (TP) prostate biopsies. A prospective cohort study was performed in men having a diagnostic TP biopsy. This was done using a validated and adapted questionnaire immediately post-biopsy and at follow-up of between 7 and 14 days across three tertiary referral hospitals with a response rate of 51.6%. Immediately after biopsy 43/201 (21.4%) of men felt light-headed, syncopal, or suffered syncope. Fifty-three percent of men felt discomfort after biopsy (with 95% scoring <5 in a 0-10 scale). Twelve out of 196 men (6.1%) felt pain immediately after the procedure. Despite a high incidence of symptoms (e.g., up to 75% had some hematuria, 47% suf...
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