Short-term Surgical Outcomes And Early Changes In Quality of Life after Monopolar- versus Bipolar Transurethral Resection of the Prostate

Abstract

Randomized controlled study, with simple randomization (1:1) of patients, was performed at department of Urology, Ain shams university hospitals. A total 80 participants have been divided equally into two groups to undergo either Monopolar or bipolar transurethral resection of the prostate. Comparing intra-operative data in monopolar and bipolar TURP groups, our study reported that there was statistically significant decrease in volume of irrigation and operative time in B-TURP group in comparison to M-TURP group. Although intra-operative complications; bleeding, electrolytes disturbance, fever and LUTS were lower in B-TURP group; however, did not reach statistically significant. In M-TURP group, there was statistically significance increase in change Hb, and time of post-operative irrigation, IPSS in compared to B-TURP group. While in respect to PVR, time of catheterization and hospital stay, there was no statistically significant difference data among the two studied groups. Although there was a statistically significance increase in each group compared with baseline with respect to quality of life, the mean differences among the two groups were statistically insignificant.