PAE references in the press and medical literature
The doctor in focus in the above photo is Joao M Pisco, MD from Lisbon, Portugal receiving an award for a PAE investigation he presented at the 2019 SIR meeting in Austin, TX.
Dr. Pisco was instrumental in evolving PAE from an academic curiosity to a clinical reality. Several of his papers are listed below.
Dr Pisco died at the Austin meeting, not long after this photograph was taken and just hours after he presented the paper for which he received the award.
Right up to the end he was as passionate about the benefits of PAE as he was frustrated with the urologic society in Portugal for deriding the procedure.
In my early days of performing PAE Dr Pisco and I frequently chatted by email to discuss technique and patient management. And his 2016 paper on the long-term benefits of PAE caused me to decide to offer the procedure to patients as an alternative to surgery, not just to patients who were unfit for surgery.
All of my patients who have benefited from PAE have Dr. Pisco to thank for his lifelong effort.
Dr. Pisco was instrumental in evolving PAE from an academic curiosity to a clinical reality. Several of his papers are listed below.
Dr Pisco died at the Austin meeting, not long after this photograph was taken and just hours after he presented the paper for which he received the award.
Right up to the end he was as passionate about the benefits of PAE as he was frustrated with the urologic society in Portugal for deriding the procedure.
In my early days of performing PAE Dr Pisco and I frequently chatted by email to discuss technique and patient management. And his 2016 paper on the long-term benefits of PAE caused me to decide to offer the procedure to patients as an alternative to surgery, not just to patients who were unfit for surgery.
All of my patients who have benefited from PAE have Dr. Pisco to thank for his lifelong effort.
Enlarged median lobe does not interfere with PAE outcomes
2020 article
Multisociety Position Statement on PAE
2019 statement from multiple professional medical societies on appropriate use of PAE
Prostate artery embolisation for lower urinary tract symptoms caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia
2018 Evidence based recommendations from Great Britain's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Age-stratified normal values for prostate volume