Karthik Rajan

Senior Clinical Fellow

Morriston Hospital, Swansea, Wales.

JOURNAL REVIEWED: BJU INTERNATIONAL – March 2020 – December 2022

Latest Contribution

Prostate biopsies without antibiotic cover – are we there yet?

12 October 2022 | | antibiotics, infection, outcomes, prophylaxis, prostate cancer, transperineal biopsy

Transperineal (TP) prostate biopsies are widely replacing the traditional transrectal route due to definite evidence of reduced infective complications. TP biopsies are usually performed with a single dose of antibiotic pre-procedure in most centres. In this article the authors attempt...

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To clamp or not to clamp – outcomes of the CLOCK trial for robotic partial nephrectomy

1 July 2022 | | Urologic Oncology | off-clamp, on-clamp, partial nephrectomy, renal tumour, robotic

The benefits of partial over radical nephrectomy are well established. The CLOCK trial (CLamp vs. Off Clamp the Kidney during robotic partial nephrectomy) was designed as a multicentre, randomised controlled trial to generate evidence on the role of the off-clamp...

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BCG after TURBT – does timing matter?

2 March 2022 | | Urologic Oncology | #BladderCancer, #blcsm, #uroonc, BCG-unresponsive, bacille Calmette-Guérin, bladder cancer, intravesical therapy, transurethral resection of bladder tumour

Intravesical bacille Calmette–Guerin (BCG) therapy continues to be widely used for patients with intermediate / high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). In this article, the researchers identified the lack of sufficient evidence with regards to timing of BCG after transurethral...