150Background: Increasing cardiovascular disease has led to increases in the patient population on anti-platelet therapy who require urologic surgery. We sought to study perioperative outcomes for those undergoing radical prostatectomy… Click to show full abstract
150Background: Increasing cardiovascular disease has led to increases in the patient population on anti-platelet therapy who require urologic surgery. We sought to study perioperative outcomes for those undergoing radical prostatectomy (RP) while taking or not taking perioperative aspirin (pASA). Methods: A retrospective review of patients undergoing RP was performed on the Premier Hospital Database from 2003 to 2015, with survey projection weighting resulting in a cohort of 157,674 patients. Two groups were formed – those continued on pASA (group 1, n = 4400) and those with no pASA (group 2, n = 153,274). In-hospital complication rates were studied: major bleeding, overall transfusion, day-of-surgery transfusion, prolonged ( > 4 days) length of stay (LOS), and prolonged ( > 285 minutes) operative time. We also assessed 90-day rates of: cardiovascular catastrophe, readmission, major complication, and DVT/PE. Unadjusted rates were calculated for all RP patients and further subdivided into open and minimall...
               
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