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Inguinal Hernia Leads to Worse Immediate Urinary Continence after Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy - Beyond the Abstract

This single-institution retrospective study showed that patients with concurrent inguinal hernia or a history of adult inguinal hernia had worse immediate urinary continence, possibly due to voiding dysfunction and weaker urethra-stabilizing periurethral fascial tissues. In this cohort, patients with inguinal hernia were older and had a lower body mass index.

However, whether this is an association or a causal relationship still needs to be determined. Further studies with a bigger sample size are needed, and other predictive factors for continence, such as smoking and the International Prognostic Scoring System, should be assessed in the future.

Written by: Yu Ozawa, PhD, Department of Urology, Itabashi Chuo Medical Center, Azusawa, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan

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