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Alessio Pecoraro1,2, Simone Morselli3,4, Maria Rosaria Raspollini3,5
1Department of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Urologic Surgery and Kidney Transplantation, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy. alessio.pecoraro10@gmail.com.
Abstract:
According to current studies, COVID-19 might have an impact on semen quality. Therefore, SARS-CoV-2 may affect other traits of male reproductive system, including the prostate. Thus, we recruited patients who experienced COVID-19 infection in-between prostate biopsy and radical prostatectomy and compared prostate samples inflammation, measured with IRANI score, to those who did not. Indeed, we recruited 20 patients, aged 69 (62-73) years, finding no difference between the 10 patients with COVID-19 infection and the others in IRANI score and all its sub-scores. Hence, according to our exploratory and limited results, COVID-19 infection might have no gross effect on prostate inflammation.
