Changing trends in penile prosthesis implantation in China and an overview of postoperative outcomes from a single center.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surgical penile prosthesis implantation (PPI) procedures have only recently been introduced to mainland China, with the overall number of such procedures having been conducted to date remaining relatively low. Accordingly, relatively little remains known with respect to the annual trends in PPI. Accordingly, this study was developed with the goal of clarifying these trends across different hospitals in mainland China, while also providing a single-center overview of post-PPI patient outcomes.

Results

To identify males in mainland China who had undergone PPI, a retrospective review of data from January 2019 - October 2023 was conducted. This approach revealed an increase in the total PPI caseload from 120 in 2019 to 413 within the first 10 months of 2023. Over this

SUBMITTER: Zhang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11311907 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature