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ReviewCurrent urology reports2019

The Role of Aquablation for the Surgical Treatment of LUTS/BPH.

Hossein Saadat, Dean S Elterman

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Review in Current urology reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hossein SaadatDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Dean S EltermanDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Dean.elterman@uhn.ca.
Toronto Western Hospital · CAUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewTo explore the potential applicability of a novel, heat-free, and robotically controlled ablative therapy for surgical management of benign prostatic enlargement. RECENT

findingsWith the emergence of new technology to provide personalized care and overcome the complications associated with options such as TURP, holmium laser enucleation of the prostate, GreenLight laser, or simple prostatectomy, Aquablation has been studied across a variety of prostate volumes. The functional outcome of Aquablation seems to be uncompromised by prostate volume. The sexual profile seems superior to TURP and the risk of retrograde ejaculation is lower. The robotic system provides a reproducible ablation, independent of prostate volume, without requiring extensive training for performing the procedure. The mean ablation time in the prostate as large as 150 ml does not exceed 9.1 min, and the blood transfusion rates do not seem to be higher than open prostatectomy.

Indexed as

Ablation TechniquesHumansHydrotherapyLower Urinary Tract SymptomsMaleProstatectomyProstatic HyperplasiaAquablationBPHLUTSOutcomes

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PMID31227924
OpenAlexW2952311995

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