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European Urology

Volume 56, Issue 5, November 2009, Pages 796-797
European Urology

Editorial
Referring to the article published on pp. 798–809 of this issue
Bipolar Transurethral Resection of the Prostate: What Did We Learn, and Where Do We Go from Here?

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    Modern urology faces a tremendous competition between the various modalities of BPH endoscopic treatment in a race for minimal invasiveness, reduced complications, and long-term efficacy. The bipolar TURP in general was described as potentially permitting a longer resection time and providing an improved hemostasis, thus enabling the surgeon to resect larger prostates without compromising safety.4 Systematic review16 showed that no clinically relevant differences in short-term efficacy exist between bipolar TURP and monopolar TURP, but bipolar TURP is preferable because of a more favorable safety profile, including lower TURS and clot retention rates and also shorter irrigation and catheterization duration.

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    A modified form of TURP, bipolar TURP (B-TURP), can be done in normal saline, a conductive medium, instead of the conventional nonconductive irrigation fluid. This should help eliminate the dilutional hyponatremia and transurethral resection syndrome caused by hypotonic/hypo-osmolar fluid irrigation.50 A lack of homogenous trials has so far hampered the comparisons between TURP and B-TURP.

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