Total and free PSA kinetics in patients without prostate cancer undergoing radical cystoprostatectomy

The Prostate
Alkibiades K GregorakisAndreas Scorilas

Abstract

Radical cystoprostatectomy and radical prostatectomy are the two major operations where prostate is totally and radically removed. Radical cystoprostatectomy is usually performed in patients with invasive bladder cancer. The aim of the study was to examine Total PSA, Free PSA, and Free/Total Ratio elimination kinetics after radical cystoprostatectomy. Serum PSA, Free PSA, and Free/Total Ratio were determined preoperatively, at the time of cystoprostatectomy specimen removal and then at 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 72, and 168 hr, from seven patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer, who underwent radical cystoprostatectomy. Free and Total PSA concentrations were measured with non-competitive immunological procedures. The elimination rates and half-lives of Total, Free PSA and Free/Total Ratio were studied using a nonlinear regression analysis. Surgical manipulations caused about 1.5-fold increase of PSA, 5-fold increase in Free PSA and 3-fold increase in Free/Total Ratio. PSA and Free PSA followed a biphasic elimination pattern of a rapid exponential (a) phase with a half-life of 4.27 and 2.14 hr and a terminal, nonexponential (b) phase with a half-life of 63 and 173.2 hr, respectively. Free/Total PSA Ratio followed, also, a biphasic k...Continue Reading

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