A comparison of the effect of 1.5% glycine and 5% glucose irrigants on plasma serum physiology and the incidence of transurethral resection syndrome during prostate resection

BJU International

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 368-372

  Collins, Justin W ^a   MacDermott, Seamus ^b   Bradbrook, Richard A ^b   Keeley Jr , Francis X ^a   Timoney, Anthony G ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b TORBAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Glycine toxicity; Irrigation fluid; Osmolar concentration; TUR syndrome; TURP

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLYCINE; SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE SURGERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SERUM; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION SYNDROME;

ABSORPTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; GLUCOSE; GLYCINE; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERUM; SYNDROME; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE;

EID: 23244457741     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05633.x     Document Type: Article

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