title: [The evaluation of urination status and International Prostate Symptom Score following radical prostatectomy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We evaluated condition of urination and International Prostate Symptom Score (I-PSS) after radical prostatectomy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-three men with prostatic cancer underwent radical prostatectomy between October 1993 and October 2002. Mean patients age was 66 years (range 56 to 79) and clinical follow-up averaged 38.6 months (range 3 to 84). Urodynamics studies including uroflowmetry, cystometry and evaluation of I-PSS were performed before and 1, 3, 6, 12 months after the operation. After 12 months these studies were performed every year. The status of postoperative urinary incontinence was based on patients' report.
  
  
  RESULTS
  First desire to void, maximum desire to void and maximal flow rate was decrease temporarily after radical prostatectomy. However most patients had normal uroflowmetorogram and normal cystometrogram at 6 months. I-PSS and QOL index was improved during postoperative 12 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Postoperatively urodynamics studies was improved from 3 to 6 months, but evaluation of I-PSS and QOL index was improved from 6 to 12 months. The difference was formed to both.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, National Hospital Tokyo Disaster Medical Center.
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Igarashi
authors.forename: Katsuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shitijo
authors.forename: Tsuneo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Masuyama
authors.forename: Yoshio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Higaki
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshida
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011468:Prostatectomy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D011788:Quality of Life; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014554:Urination / Q000502:physiology*; D014563:Urodynamics