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Article of the Week: Nerve-sparing surgery – In vivo periprostatic nerve tracking using MPM in a rat model

Every Week the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Week from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post.

If you only have time to read one article this week, it should be this one.

Real-time in vivo periprostatic nerve tracking using multiphoton microscopy in a rat survival surgery model: a promising pre-clinical study for enhanced nerve-sparing surgery

Matthieu Durand***, Manu Jain*, Amit Aggarwal, Brian D. Robinson*‡, Abhishek Srivastava*, Rebecca Smith, Prasanna Sooriakumaran§, Joyce Loefer**, Chris Pumill††, Jean Amiel**, Daniel Chevallier**, Sushmita Mukherjee† and Ashutosh K. Tewari*

 

*Department of Urology, Department of Biochemistry, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, ††Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, §Surgical Intervention Trials Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, ¶Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and **Department of Urology, Hopital Archet 2, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France

 

OBJECTIVES

To assess the ability of multiphoton microscopy (MPM) to visualise, differentiate and track periprostatic nerves in an in vivo rat model, mimicking real-time imaging in humans during RP and to investigate the tissue toxicity and reproducibility of in vivo MPM on prostatic glands in the rat after imaging and final histological correlation study.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

In vivo prostatic rat imaging was carried out using a custom-built bench-top MPM system generating real-time three-dimensional histological images, after performing survival surgery consisting of mini-laparotomies under xylazine/ketamine anaesthesia exteriorising the right prostatic lobe. The acquisition time and the depth of anaesthesia were adjusted for collecting multiple images in order to track the periprostatic nerves in real-time. The rats were then monitored for 15 days before undergoing a new set of imaging under similar settings. After humanely killing the rats, their prostates were submitted for routine histology and correlation studies.

RESULTS

In vivo MPM images distinguished periprostatic nerves within the capsule and the prostatic glands from fresh unprocessed prostatic tissue without the use of exogenous contrast agents or biopsy sample. Real-time nerve tracking outlining the prostate was feasible and acquisition was not disturbed by motion artefacts. No serious adverse event was reported during rat monitoring; no tissue damage due to laser was seen on the imaged lobe compared with the contralateral lobe (control) allowing comparison of their corresponding histology.

CONCLUSIONS

For the first time, we have shown that in vivo tracking of periprostatic nerves using MPM is feasible in a rat model. Development of a multiphoton endoscope for intraoperative use in humans is currently in progress and must be assessed.

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