Ep. 319 Reconstructive Techniques for Adult Buried Penis with Dr. Paul Rusilko

[intro music] This week on The Back Table podcast

And we reviewed before with questionnaires and then at one-year follow-up, and it's just drastic the change, just looking at the improvement of quality of life just by having surgery.

And these are patients who've been living like that for, on average, five years, and people longer than that.

And they're just told the average, when we ask, "What was the average result you got from your providers prior?" was lose weight, which is terrible in this population.

Other things that we do see, not just, you know, the physical symptoms of urinary and sexual, is depression.

100% of these patients do have depression with this disease, and by doing surgery, several studies are out there showing that it actually improved their depression score, which is...

I mean, we're improving sexual life, urinary life, and depression.

Not alone to mention potentially keeping people from having stricture disease or developing penile cancer.

So that's massive, and that's the things that we, again, we provide that to the literature and for insurance companies to do this, but we have to get this literature out.

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[intro music] This week on The Back Table podcast

And we reviewed before with questionnaires and then at one-year follow-up, and it's just drastic the change, just looking at the improvement of quality of life just by having surgery.

And these are patients who've been living like that for, on average, five years, and people longer than that.

And they're just told the average, when we ask, "What was the average result you got from your providers prior?" was lose weight, which is terrible in this population.

Other things that we do see, not just, you know, the physical symptoms of urinary and sexual, is depression.

100% of these patients do have depression with this disease, and by doing surgery, several studies are out there showing that it actually improved their depression score, which is...

I mean, we're improving sexual life, urinary life, and depression.

Not alone to mention potentially keeping people from having stricture disease or developing penile cancer.

So that's massive, and that's the things that we, again, we provide that to the literature and for insurance companies to do this, but we have to get this literature out.

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