Following a series of anatomical discoveries of the prostate and its surrounding structures made at Johns Hopkins about two decades ago, changes in the surgical approach permitted radical prostatectomies to be performed with significantly improved outcomes. Now after the surgery, expectations are that physical capacity is fully recovered in most patients within several weeks, return of urinary continence is achieved by more than 95 percent of patients within a few months, and erection recovery with ability to engage in sexual intercourse is regained by most patients within two years.
Following a series of anatomical discoveries of the prostate and
its surrounding structures made at Johns Hopkins about two decades
ago, changes in the surgical approach permitted radical
prostatectomies to be performed with significantly improved...
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Johns Hopkins Medicine answered:Following a series of anatomical discoveries of the prostate and its surrounding structures made at Johns Hopkins about two decades ago, changes in the surgical approach permitted radical prostatectomies to be performed with significantly improved outcomes. Now after the surgery, expectations are that physical capacity is fully recovered in most patients within several weeks, return of urinary continence is achieved by more than 95 percent of patients within a few months, and erection recovery with ability to engage in sexual intercourse is regained by most patients within two years.
