Impact of endoscopic enucleation of the prostate with thulium fiber laser on the erectile function.
Dmitry V EnikeevPetr GlybochkoLeonid RapoportZhamshid OkhunovMitchel O'LearyNatalya PotoldykovaRoman SukhanovMikhail EnikeevEkaterina LaukhtinaMark TaratkinPublished in: BMC urology (2018)
Both TURP and ThuFLEP are effective modalities in the management of infravesical obstruction due to BPH. At six months follow-up after surgery, both techniques lead to comparable IIEF-5 score. However, our results demonstrated that the ThuFLEP is more likely to preserve the erectile function leading to increase of IIEF-5 at six months in contrast to TURP which lead to slight drop in IIEF-5 score.