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Surgical Treatment for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate HoLEP.
Published on: March 6, 2018
The effectiveness and safety of three surgical procedures for the treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia: A
Jiusong Yan1, Liang Gao1, Guangyong Xu1
1Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China.
Objective:
To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) and thulium laser enucleation of the prostate (ThuLEP) in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia using a network Meta-analysis.
Methods:
Randomized controlled trials of TURP, HoLEP and ThuLEP for benign prostatic hyperplasia were collected by computerized searches of databases including CNKI, WANFANG, VIP, PubMed, The Cochrane Library, the Web of Science and Embase, with a search time frame of build to January 2022. The literature was screened and data was extracted by two investigators separately, while the risk of bias of the included studies was evaluated before systematic evaluation and network meta-analysis using ADDIS 1.16.8 software and RevMan 5.3 software.
Results:
A total of 27 RCTs with a total of 3335 patients were involved. The results of the network meta-analysis showed that ThuLEP was better than the remaining two procedures in terms of enhancing patients' subjective perception and improving objective indicators, and the incidence of adverse events such as postoperative urethral stricture and urinary incontinence was lower compared with that of conventional TURP in both short- and long-term postoperative follow-ups.
Conclusion:
As ThuLEP is effective, safe, and featured with few postoperative complications, it can be the preferred surgical procedure for prostate enlargement. Nevertheless, because of the limited number of studies included, more-sample, multicenter, double-blind clinical randomized controlled trials are required in the future to further verify the findings of the present study.
