Prostate volume index and prostatic chronic inflammation have an effect on tumor load at baseline random biopsies in patients with normal DRE and PSA values less than 10 ng/ml: results of 564 consecutive cases.
Antonio Benito PorcaroAlessandro TafuriMarco SebbenAliasger ShakirGiovanni NovellaMarco PirozziTania ProcessaliRiccardo RizzettoNelia AmigoniLeone TisoClara CerratoMatteo BrunelliMaria Angela CerrutoFilippo MiglioriniSalvatore SiracusanoWalter ArtibaniPublished in: Therapeutic advances in urology (2019)
Higher PVI and the presence of PCI predicted decreased PCA risk in patients presenting with normal DRE, and a PSA ⩽ 10 ng/ml at baseline random biopsy. In this subset of patients, a PVI ⩽ or >1 is able to differentiate patients with PCA or PCI.
Keyphrases
- prostate cancer
- radical prostatectomy
- end stage renal disease
- acute myocardial infarction
- coronary artery disease
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- acute coronary syndrome
- ejection fraction
- benign prostatic hyperplasia
- antiplatelet therapy
- chronic kidney disease
- oxidative stress
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- heart failure
- patient reported outcomes
- left ventricular
- fine needle aspiration
- coronary artery bypass