Post-surgical outcomes of patients with chronic kidney disease and end stage renal disease undergoing radical prostatectomy: 10-year results from the US National Inpatient Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage renal disease (ESRD) are not well characterized in prostate cancer patients. This study aimed to examine the clinical characteristics and postsurgical outcomes of patients with or without CKD and ESRD undergoing radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.

Methods

This population-based, retrospective study used patient data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, the largest all-payer US inpatient care database. From 2005 to 2014, 136,790 male patients aged > 20 years diagnosed with prostate cancer and who received radical prostatectomy were included. Postoperative complications, postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) and urinary complications, and length of hospital stay were compared between patients with or without underl

SUBMITTER: Ning C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6651956 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature