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Initial experience with holmium laser enucleation of the prostate in a urology specialist hospital in Nigeria

African Journal of Urology volume 27, Article number: 88 (2021) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) is a more recent procedure for the management of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia compared to open prostatectomy or Transurethral Resection of the Prostate. HoLEP is not commonly done in Nigeria. The objective of the study was to determine whether our initial experience with HoLEP in Abuja, favourably compared to those of other centres across the world.

Methods

A retrospective study was done on 40 patients who had HoLEP between October 2018 and December 2019. Pre- and post-operative International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS), prostate-specific antigen (PSA), prostate sizes, maximum flow rate (Qmax) and post-void residual urine volume (PVR) were collated. The duration of irrigation, catheterization and length of hospital stay were also recorded and analysed. Complications were documented.

Results

There were improvements in IPSS from 19.67 to 5.41, PSA from 8.07 to 2.03 ng/ml, Qmax from 11.27 to 29.67 ml/min, PVR from 88.99 to 32.8 ml, while average prostate sizes reduced from 116.54 to 30.3 g after surgery. Following HoLEP, the duration of irrigation was 18.00 h, catheterization was 26.76 h and length of hospital stay was 1.82 days. Two (5.0%) patients were recatheterized, 4 (10.0%) developed post-operative bladder neck stenosis.

Conclusions

The outcome of HoLEP in our experience compared favourably with those from other centres. With adequate training and requisite equipment in resource-poor environments, technical procedures like HoLEP can be embarked on with favourable results.

1 Background

Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) are amongst the most common complaints of aging men in Urology clinics. The prevalence of moderate to severe LUTS suggestive of BPH in men 40 years and above increases with age ranging from 25.35% [1] to 35.3% [2], in 2 different states in Nigeria and 19.9% in Accra Ghana [3]. These symptoms are often distressing to patients and interfere enough with their overall quality of life to make them seek medical intervention.

The American Urological Association (AUA) recommends that patients with LUTS should be evaluated with a clinical history and urinalysis. Also, uroflometry and pressure flow studies should be considered for evaluation in selected patients and prior to surgical intervention, assessment of prostate size and shape are to be considered [4, 5].

Based on evaluation of these patients, treatment options may be watchful waiting, pharmacological or surgical [6]. Indications for Surgery in patients with BPH include renal insufficiency, refractory urinary retention, recurrent urinary tract infection, gross haematuria and recurrent bladder stones due to BPH. LUTS attributed to BPH, refractory to other therapies or in patients unwilling to use other therapies, also constitute indication for surgical intervention [4, 5].

For many years, transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) was the gold standard of surgery [7,8,9] for patients with bothersome moderate or severe LUTS due to BPH who either failed, did not qualify for or did not want medical therapy. With the rapid emergence and popularization of other minimally invasive technologies, TURP as the “gold standard” for surgical treatment of BPH is being replaced with HoLEP. Gilling described HoLEP in 1996 [10] and since then, it came to be considered as a safe and effective method for treatment of BPH [11] and a preferred alternative to open prostatectomy and TURP [12].

For prostates greater in size than 80 g, HoLEP is recommended by the European Association of Urology (EAU) as an alternative to open prostatectomy [13]. It has been shown to produce long-term functional results, better haemostatic properties, lower perioperative morbidity and shorter hospital stay [14]. It has been suggested as a size-independent, gold standard treatment of patients with lower urinary tract symptoms secondary to benign prostatic enlargement [15].

Like most surgical procedures, HoLEP is not without complications. Perioperative complications such as capsular perforation, superficial bladder mucosal injury, injury to the ureteric orifice, incomplete morcellation and the need for an additional procedure have been reported. Other complications, including clot retention, acute urinary retention requiring recatheterization and UTI sometimes occur. Post-operative urinary incontinence, transient or persistent; bladder neck contracture and urethral strictures can also complicate the procedure [16].

In Africa and indeed in Nigeria, HoLEP is a relatively novel procedure. Hindrances to the commencement of HoLEP procedure include cost, unavailability of requisite skills, and the prolonged learning curve compared to open surgery or TURP. It has been said that a Surgeon needs to perform up to 50 cases of HoLEP before proficiency is attained [17]. Mentorship is a challenge in resource-poor countries.

The objective of this study is to analyse our experience and determine if our initial outcome is favourably comparable to results in other centres.

2 Methods

The study was a retrospective study. It was carried out in Abuja, Nigeria. From commencement of HoLEP in October 2018, a total of 49 patients have had the procedure by December 2019. HoLEP was performed on patients with bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) secondary to BPH. All patients had pre-operative assessment of International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS), PSA, prostate size, PVR, and maximum flow rate (Qmax). Four patients were catheterized prior to presentation on account of acute urinary retention. For these patients, the Qmax was assumed to be 0 and residual volumes could not be estimated.

All surgeries were done by one Surgeon, the first 7 under supervision. HoLEP was done with the Lumenis 120 W laser, Moses Technology™. The duration of irrigation, catheterization and hospital stay were computed. Pre-operative indices were reassessed 6 months after surgery. Of the patients due for reassessment, only 12 had presented at the time this data was compiled. Results and conclusions were drawn from available data.

Data was entered into and analysed with SPSS version 25.0. Paired sample T-test was used to compare mean. P value < 0.05 was set to define statistical significance.

3 Results

Table 1 shows the baseline pre-operative parameters of the patients. The oldest patient was 81 years and the largest prostate was 509 g. Prior to surgery, as much as 2832 ml of urine was retained post-urination.

Table 1 Baseline pre-operative characteristics
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One patient was not irrigated at all after surgery. The longest duration of catheterization was 92 h. Patients spent an average of 1.82 days in the hospital after surgery (Table 2).

Table 2 Peri-operative characteristics
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Nine patients were excluded from this study because they were found to have other factors responsible for BOO, including urethral injury from prior catheterization elswhere, urethral stricture found at pre-HoLEP urethrocystoscopy, and prostate cancer and not just the enlarged prostate and so they did not qualify for the measurements that were taken. Of the 40 patients, three (7.50%) patients were transfused pre- and intra-op on account of low hematocrits prior to surgery. Twenty seven out of the 40 patients were not transfused before, during or after surgery. Two (5.00%) patients were recatheterized after surgery for failure to pass urine which resolved after 3 more days of catheterization. One (2.50%) patient had urethrocystoscopy following HoLEP for post-operative haematuria. This patient had urethral injury that was not recognized at surgery. Four (10.00%) other patients had urethrocystoscopy for obstructive voiding symptoms within the 6 months after surgery and transurethral incision of the bladder neck (TUIBN) was done. One (2.50%) patient had bipolar TURP one month after HoLEP. His prostate gland was 252 g, very fibrotic from chronic prostatitis. The repeat surgery was a planned procedure to take out any residual tissue not completely enucleated in the first session.

For the 12 patients who have returned for follow up, the average age of patients was 64.83 years (Table 3). A comparison of the pre- and post-operative changes are shown below.

Table 3 Post-operative characteristics
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4 Discussion

BPH is a relatively common condition in Nigerian Urology clinics. However, while open surgery and TURP are relatively common surgical modalities of treatment, HoLEP is not common. To the best of our knowledge, only our centre offered this procedure in Nigeria in 2019. Compared to open prostatectomy and TURP, HoLEP offers significantly lower post-operative morbidity, shorter catheterization time and post-operative hospital stay [14]. It has been shown to provide relief from LUTS due to BPH, and this was replicated in our experience (See Fig. 1).

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Pre- and post-outcome scores of all understudied patients

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While our findings are in keeping with those of others that BPH occurs in the elderly, in comparison to all other centres whose studies we reviewed [7, 18,19,20,21], our patients were relatively younger. It has been established that prostate cancer is more common [22] and occurs at a younger age [23] in blacks. The factors responsible for this may also be responsible for early-onset BPH seen in men of African descent, the race to which all our patients belonged.

The average pre-operative prostate size in our experience was higher than those seen elsewhere [7, 18, 24, 25]. While there has been no consensus statement about the impact of race on prostate sizes [26, 27], prostates of Asians have been found to be generally smaller than their western counterparts [28]. Irrespective of sizes seen, which were larger than those found in other parts of the world, all prostates were still enucleated and morcellated successfully with a sonographically estimated mean resected tissue volume of 86.24 ml. All patients except one had complete enucleation of their prostates in one session. In Turkey, a research team reported a morcellated prostate volume of 29.2 ± 11 ml [11], while another team reported that the resected adenoma volume was 52.3 ± 8.3 ml [29]. In South Korea, a sonographically calculated resected prostate tissue volume of 29.2 ± 20.1 ml [30] was reported in keeping with our observation that prostates we see in Nigeria or Africa presenting for surgery are much bigger than those seen in several other continents.

The PSA values of the patients were higher than those reported by other authors from outside Africa [7, 31, 32]. PSA values usually correlate positively with prostate sizes [33,34,35,36,37] in patients who otherwise do not have prostate cancer. The PSA values in our experience are thus reflective of the huge prostate sizes in our environment. Some of the patients with high PSA values who did not have cancer also had prostatitis (acute, chronic, or acute-on-chronic). The PSA rise and fall pre- and post-surgery thus hypothetically reflects the large prostate sizes in our environment and the post-operative reduction in prostate volume following enucleation of prostatic tissue during HoLEP.

Post-void residual urine volume does not always correlate with the degree of mechanical obstruction, because sometimes, it is due to other factors and not just the mechanical obstruction. But when it is used in conjunction with other parameters, its sensitivity is increased [38] and in patients with BPH, it is an important indication for surgery. In our patients, the average pre-operative PVR was 203.98 ml. Reports from other centres have shown similarly high PVR volumes in BPH patients presenting for surgery [11, 20, 39]. The mean pre-operative post-void residual volume was found to be lower than that in another centre [11]. This is probably because some of the patients were catheterized prior to surgery and so their pre-op PVRs were not computed. Also, one patient had surgery because he did not want to continue with medical treatment and not because he was retaining urine at the time of surgery.

A low Qmax is highly suggestive of obstruction [39]. This was the case in this study. Though the pre-operative Qmax in our experience was higher than that found in other studies [7, 20, 25, 40], the change in Qmax was still statistically significant with better post-operative results. One of these patients opted for surgery to reduce the number of medications he had to take for multiple medical conditions, even though he was doing well on medical treatment for BPH, and this may have contributed to this finding.

Compared to reports of other authors we reviewed [11, 18, 20], our patients had the shortest duration of post-operation catheterization. The length of hospital stay in our experience was comparable to those reported from other centres [11, 18, 20, 41, 42]. With significantly lower durations of irrigation and catheterization post-surgery, some patients could be discharged home without catheters within 24 h of surgery when they were able to void without complaints.

A significant improvement in symptoms is one of the aims of surgery for BPH. We observed a 72.5% change in pre- and post-operative IPSS in our initial experience. This is in agreement with several reports from other authors which reported significant improvements in symptom scores after surgery [11, 20, 25, 42].

Capsular perforation was reported in as much as 9.6% of patients who had HoLEP in one study [16]. In our experience though, no patient had capsular perforation or superficial bladder mucosa injury. It is said that following HoLEP, 0–12.1% [16] of patients will require recatheterization. Two (5.00%) of our patients were recatheterized for failure to pass urine which resolved after 3 more days of catheterization. This compares favourably to studies which recorded 6.4% [43] and 3.9% [16] incidents of recatheterization following HoLEP.

A total of 5 (12.5%) patients had cystoscopy following surgery. One was for post-operative hematuria due to unrecognized urethral injury at surgery, while the other four patients had urethrocystoscopy for early-onset obstructive voiding symptoms. Bladder neck contracture (BNC) reportedly occurs in 0.3–9.7% [44] of patients following surgery for BPH. In Indiana, USA, this was observed in 3.9% [45] of patients after HoLEP while in Maharashtra, India and Montreal, Canada, 0.35% [16] and 0.8% [18] of patients respectively developed BNC following HoLEP. In our early experience, 4 (10.0%) of our patients had TUIBN for BNC within 6 months after HoLEP, which is close to reported figures. At the moment, we have reduced intensity of coagulation to avert post-operative bladder neck stenosis. Urethral stricture was not found to be responsible for obstructive voiding symptoms in any patient who had these within the 6-month follow-up period.

Early incontinence is said to occur in up to 44% of patients after HoLEP while late iatrogenic stress incontinence has been reported in 0–2.4 [16] cases. Up to 32.7% of patients in one study [46] had urinary incontinence at 6 months. Another study reported long-term incontinence in 12.6% [47] of patients. In our experience, none of our patients who had returned for follow-up was incontinent at their review 6 months after surgery.

5 Conclusion

The outcome of HoLEP in our early experience was similar to and in some aspects, somewhat better than those from other parts of the world. The possibility of complications in the hands of the beginner and the prolonged learning curve should therefore not be a hindrance to commencement of HoLEP in Nigeria as excellent results can still be achieved even at a very early stage.

6 Limitations

The sample size is too small to make a more generalized statement. A larger study will need to be done with long-term follow up to get a clearer picture of the situation with HoLEP in our environment.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Abbreviations

AUA:

American Urological Association

BNC:

Bladder neck contracture

BOO:

Bladder outlet obstruction

BPH:

Benign prostatic hyperplasia

EAU:

European Association of Urology

HoLEP:

Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate

IPSS:

International Prostate Symptom Score

LUTS:

Lower urinary tract symptoms

PSA:

Prostate-specific antigen

PVR:

Post-void residual urine volume

Qmax:

Maximum flow rate

QoL:

Quality of life

TUIBN:

Transurethral incision of bladder neck

TURP:

Transurethral resection of the prostate

UTI:

Urinary tract infection

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CUU conceptualized and designed the research. EIN collected and interpreted patients’ data. KRT contributed to interpretation of the results, prepared the figure and tables and extensively reviewed all references. All authors discussed the results and were major contributors in writing the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Undie, C.U., Nnana, E.I. & Torporo, K.R. Initial experience with holmium laser enucleation of the prostate in a urology specialist hospital in Nigeria. Afr J Urol 27, 88 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12301-021-00184-4

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