SynthesisAmerican journal of men's health2018
The Early Use of Vacuum Therapy for Penile Rehabilitation After Radical Prostatectomy: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Is it Worth Starting Sexual Rehabilitation Before Radical Prostatectomy? Results From a Systematic Review of the Literature.Frontiers in surgery · 2021Pooled it
- Sexual dysfunction after cancer: gender differences, tumor-specific patterns, and implications for sexual medicine practice.Oncology reviews · 2026Review
- Sexual function recovery following open and robotic radical prostatectomy: results of an academic penile rehabilitation program.Asian journal of andrology · 2025Article
- The role of vacuum erection device and penile traction therapy in the patients after radical prostatectomy: a narrative review.International journal of impotence research · 2025Review
- Erectile Dysfunction in Pelvic Cancer Survivors and Current Management Options.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Advances in physical diagnosis and treatment of male erectile dysfunction.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- Commentary on posteroperative vaccuum therapy following AMS LGX 700 inflatable penile prosthesis placement: penile dimension outcomes and overall satisfaction : Is there a benefit to adjunctive vacuum therapy after penile prosthesis placement?International journal of impotence research · 2020Article
- Vacuum therapy prevents corporeal veno-occlusive dysfunction and penile shrinkage in a cavernosal nerve injured rat model.Asian journal of andrologyArticle
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Abstract
Vacuum therapy has been widely used for penile rehabilitation after radical prostatectomy (RP), but its efficacy and safety are unclear. The study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the early use of vacuum therapy for post-RP men. Randomized clinical trials were selected according to predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. RevMan 5.3 software was used for meta-analyses. In total, six randomized controlled trials were included with a total of 273 post-RP patients. The meta-analysis revealed that the early use of vacuum therapy could significantly improve the five-item International Index of Erectile Function and penile shrinkage in post-RP patients. Few adverse events were reported across the included studies. This review suggests that the early use of vacuum therapy appears to have excellent therapeutic effect on post-RP patients and no serious side effects were identified. Due to overall limited quality of the included studies, the therapeutic benefit of vacuum therapy in penile rehabilitation needs be substantiated to a limited degree in the future. Better methodological, large controlled trials are expected to verify the therapeutic effect of vacuum therapy in penile rehabilitation.
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