Helal Syed, MD, presented “Interim Analysis for Patterns of Erectile Recovery After Robotic‐Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy: A Penile Rehab Study” for the Grand Rounds in Urology audience in April, 2020.
How to cite: Syed, Helal. “Interim Analysis for Patterns of Erectile Recovery After Robotic‐Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy: A Penile Rehab Study” April, 2020. Accessed Jul 2024. https://grandroundsinurology.com/interim-analysis-for-patterns-of-erectile-recovery-after-robotic‐assisted-laparoscopic-prostatectomy-a-penile-rehab-study/
Interim Analysis for Patterns of Erectile Recovery After Robotic‐Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy: A Penile Rehab Study – Summary:
Helal Syed, MD, a urology resident at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, discusses investigating the use of pentoxifylline versus PDE-5 inhibitors (PDE-5i) in a small case-control study in patients undergoing robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP). He notes the high cost of PDE-5i, which accounted for nearly $82 million of healthcare-related spending in 2015, and how medications such as pentoxifylline could help improve postoperative ED while reducing costs. Finally, Dr. Syed discusses the results of a 17 patient case-control study using pentoxifylline and PDE-5i, which demonstrated no difference in IIEF scores, BMI, or stretched penile length between the treatment groups.
This post is the first in a curated series of lectures originally presented at the Society of Government Service Urologists 2020 Kimbrough Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. Other lectures in this series include:
Testosterone Therapy in Men with Organ-Confined Gleason 6-7 Prostate Cancer After Radical Prostatectomy
Microscopic Hematuria Evaluation Stratification: A Machine Learning Approach
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helal Syed is a Captain in the United States Air Force. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Upon graduation he was a Teach for America Corps Member in Greater Newark, New Jersey. He then attended the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, where he received his MD. He completed his general surgery internship at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, and is currently a urology resident there.
