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Introduction

Transperineal template mapping MRI/TRUS fusion biopsy (TMBx) offers superior accuracy and allows optimal risk stratification for patients detected with prostate cancer. However, limited data is available regarding complications and morbidity following TMBx. The goal of this retrospective analysis was to obtain the complication rate follwing TMBx in a large series.

Methods

The records of 402 consecutive patients undergoing TMBx between June 2013 and August 2016 were reviewed. All patients received a single shot antibiotic prophylaxis with 80 mg gentamicin. All underwent transperineal fusion targeted biopsy of MRI-suspicious lesions (median 3 cores per lesion) and transperineal extended template biopsy (median 41 cores). The complications were reported according to the modified Clavien-Dindo classification system.

Results

Of the 421 biopsies, 371 (88.1%) had an uneventful biopsy without complications. Twenty patients (4.8%) showed post-biopsy complications requiring an outpatient consultation or hospital admission within 30 days of the procedure. According to the Clavien-Dindo classification there were 25 patients (5.9%) with grade I complications, 24 (5.7%) with grade II and one patient (0.2%) with a grade IIIb complication (TUR-P within 30 days as a patients desire). Eleven patients (2.6%) developed an urosepsis (fever >38.5°C), 38 (9%) had an urinary retention requiring urethral catheterization and two (0.5%) had an acute bacterial prostatitis. Of the eleven patients with urosepsis, seven carried Escherichia coli, the other four cases were ESBL, Enterococcus faecalis, Serratia marcenscens and Enterobacter cloacae complex with Staphyloccocus aureus. Those patients had to be hospitalised for 2.5 days on average (range 1-7 days). 37 patients (8.8%) mentioned haematospermia while 93 (22.1%) noticed haematuria within 30 days of the procedure. A binomial logistic regression showed that an increased prostate volume was associated with an increased likelihood of exhibiting urinary retention (p = 0.006).

Conclusions

In this analysis we demonstrated a low morbidity following TMBx. The procedure is very well tolerated and safe for patients. Especially the rate of major infections and urosepsis are low. Haematuria and haematospermia were very common but self-limiting in most of the cases. However, urinary retention is a major complication with 9% of all cases and is associated with increased prostate volume. Therefore we now leave the catheter for two days in patients with larger prostate glands.

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