Prevention of irrigant absorption during TURP: continuous low-pressure irrigation.
Comparative studies have been carried out on bladder pressure. The pressure gradient between bladder and abdominal cavity during TURP proved to be significantly lower with continuous low-pressure irrigation than with conventional high-pressure irrigation. Absorption is reduced to a clinically insignificant rate, as shown by blood sugar determinations during TURP in 100 cases.
D000005:Abdomen; D000042:Absorption; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011312:Pressure; D011468:Prostatectomy; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation / Q000379:methods*; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000503:physiopathology
D001786:Blood Glucose