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The impact of smoking on wound healing and surgical-site infection rates in penile implant surgery, and the recommendation for preoperative smoking cessation.
, smoking, and prior pelvic or abdominal surgery each raise the risk profile for complications after penile implant surgery, most notably infection, wound-healing problems, and device-related revision...
is one of the strongest, consistently reported predictors of needing a later revision: younger recipients face markedly higher lifetime and medium‑term revision rates, while older recipients have lowe...
carries well-documented benefits but infection and dissatisfaction remain the highest preoperative risks; evidence-based risk reduction centers on patient selection, medical optimization (notably glyc...