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Immediate preoperative blood glucose and hemoglobin a1c levels are not predictive of postoperative infections in diabetic men undergoing penile prosthesis placement

International Journal of Impotence Research volume 33, pages 296–302 (2021)Cite this article

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Defining the risks associated with diabetes mellitus in patients undergoing penile prosthesis implantation remains controversial. Our study aims to assess whether preoperative hemoglobin a1c and preoperative blood glucose levels are associated with an increased risk for postoperative infection in diabetic men. We performed a retrospective review of 932 diabetic patients undergoing primary penile prosthesis implantation from 18 high-volume penile prosthesis implantation surgeons throughout the United States, Germany, Belgium, and South Korea. Preoperative hemoglobin a1c and blood glucose levels within 6 h of surgery were collected and assessed in univariate and multivariate models for correlation with postoperative infection, revision, and explantation rates. The primary outcome is postoperative infection and the secondary outcomes are postoperative revision and explantation. In all, 875 patients were included in the final analysis. There were no associations between preoperative blood glucose levels or hemoglobin a1c levels and postoperative infection rates; p = 0.220 and p = 0.598, respectively. On multivariate analysis, a history of diabetes-related complications was a significant predictor of higher revision rates (p = 0.034), but was nonsignificant for infection or explantation rates. We conclude preoperative blood glucose levels and hemoglobin a1c levels are not associated with an increased risk for postoperative infection, revision, or explantation in diabetic men undergoing penile prosthesis implantation.

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  1. Department of Urology, Irvine Medical Center, University of California, Orange, CA, USA

    Mohamad M. Osman, Linda M. Huynh, Farouk M. El-Khatib, Maxwell Towe, Huang-Wei Su & Faysal A. Yafi

  2. Service d’urologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Liège, Belgium

    Robert Andrianne & Maxime Sempels

  3. Division of Urology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Gregory Barton & Aaron Lentz

  4. Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA

    Gregory Broderick & Kevin Parikh

  5. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Arthur L. Burnett & Jeffrey D. Campbell

  6. University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Jonathan Clavell-Hernandez, Ross Guillum & Run Wang

  7. Department of Urology, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, USA

    Jessica Connor & Hossein Sadeghi-Nejad

  8. Section of Urology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Martin Gross

  9. Department of Urology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Amy I. Guise

  10. Department of Urology, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Georgios Hatzichristodoulou

  11. ArkLaTex Urology, Bossier City, LA, USA

    Gerard D. Henry

  12. Department of Urology, UC San Diego Health System, San Diego, CA, USA

    Tung-Chin Hsieh & Christopher Koprowski

  13. Department of Urology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Lawrence C. Jenkins

  14. Sewum Prosthetic Urology Center of Excellence, Seoul, South Korea

    Kook B. Lee & Sung Hun Park

  15. Department of Urology, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Ricardo M. Munarriz & Shu Pan

  16. Department of Urology, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany

    Daniar Osmonov

  17. Department of Urology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Amir S. Patel & Jay Simhan

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Osman, M.M., Huynh, L.M., El-Khatib, F.M. et al. Immediate preoperative blood glucose and hemoglobin a1c levels are not predictive of postoperative infections in diabetic men undergoing penile prosthesis placement. Int J Impot Res 33, 296–302 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41443-020-0261-5

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