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BJU Int. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 August 01. Published in final edited form as: BJU Int. 2016 August ; 118(2): 302–306. doi:10.1111/bju.13404.

Ninety-Day Postoperative Mortality after Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy and Retropubic Radical Prostatectomy. Nation-wide population-based study Johan Björklund1, Yasin Folkvaljon2, Alexander Cole3, Stefan Carlsson4, David Robinson5,7, Stacy Loeb6, Pär Stattin7, and Olof Akre1,8

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1Department 2Regional 3Division

of Urology, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden

Cancer Centre, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

of Urologic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston,

USA 4Department

of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Section of Urology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 5Department

of Urology, Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping, Sweden

6Department

of Urology, Population Health, and the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University, New York, USA

7Department

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of Surgery and Perioperative sciences, Urology and Andrology, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden

8Clinical

Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm,

Sweden

Abstract Objective—To assess 90-day postoperative mortality after Robot assisted laparoscopic Radical prostatectomy (RARP) and retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP) by use of nationwide population-based registry data.

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Patients and methods—Cohort study in the National Prostate Cancer Register (NPCR) of Sweden of 22 344 men with prostate cancer in clinical local stage T1-T3, PSA