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International Multicentre Analysis of Perioperative Complications Following Major Urologic Oncologic Surgery: Early Results from More than 130 000 Procedures from the CAMUS Collaborative

  • Christopher Soliman
  • , Niranjan Sathianathen
  • , Niall M. Corcoran
  • , Patrick Y. Wuethrich
  • , Marc A. Furrer
  • , Furat Abd Ali
  • , Yasmin Abu Ghanem
  • , Constantinos Adamou
  • , Osama Al-Bermani
  • , David M. Albala
  • , Peter C. Albertsen
  • , Salah Albuheissi
  • , Turki Altaylouni
  • , Bastian Amend
  • , Filip Ameye
  • , Daniele Amparore
  • , Yuliya Anastasiyeuskaya
  • , Jonathan Aning
  • , Riccardo Autorino
  • , Atiqullah Aziz
  • Marek Babjuk, Mitchell Barns, Saajida Begum, Daniel Benamran, Barbora Bendova, Frank P. Berger, Camille Berquin, Axel Bex, Burkhard Beyer, Jörg Beyer, Conrad Bishop, Peter Black, J. M. Blok, Mehmet Salih Boğa, Damien Bolton, Joost L. Boormans, Angelika Borkowetz, Piet Bosshard, Silvan Boxler, Kelly K. Bree, Alberto Briganti, Stephan Brönimann, O. R. Brouwer, Maximilian Burger, Giovanni Cacciamani, Declan Cahill, Edward Calleja, Geraldine Cancel-Tassin, Abdullah Erdem Canda, Daniele Castellani, Xavier Cathelineau, James Catto, Alberto Caviglia, Benjamin Challacombe, Kimberely Chan, Kapil Chaudhary, Yue Che, Joseph G. Cheaib, Enrico Checcucci, Kenneth Chen, Ijeoma Chibuzo, Paul H. Chung, Francesco Claps, Evi Comploj, Samantha Conroy, Roberto Contieri, Niall Corcoran, Geoff Coughlin, Marcus Cumberbatch, Olivier Cussenot, David D'Andrea, Britt-Inger Dahlin, Ruben De Groote, Geert De Naeyer, Cosimo De Nunzio, Karel Decaestecker, Peter Dekuyper, Paolo Dell'Oglio, Mihir Desai, Jorge Díaz-Méndez, Colin P. N. Dinney, Lachlan Dodds, Scott Donnellan, Desiree Louise Draeger, Danelo Estienne du Plessis, Philip Dundee, Benjamin Eddy, Christopher Eden, Sarah Einerhand, Dean Elterman, Simon Udo Engelmann, Thomas Enzmann, Francesco Esperto, Wouter Everaerts, Osama Ezzat, Pouriya Faraj Tabrizi, Vincenzo Ficarra, Neil Fleshner, Yves Fradet, Bruyere Franck, Martin Franko, Mark Frydenberg, Marc Alain Furrer, Antonio Galfano, Pignot Geraldine, Inderbir Gill, Sidney Glina, Jeremy Goad, Fernando Gómez, N. Graafland, Markus Graefen, Matthieu Gratton, Christian Gratzke, Isabella Greco, Robert große Siemer, Salvatore Guaglianone, Alessandro Guercio, Ana Guijarro Cascales, Bertrand Guillonneau, Georgi Guruli, Boris Hadaschik, M. J. Hagens, Oliver Hakenberg, Agus Rizal Hamid, Peter Hammerer, Peter Hanna, Nina Natascha Harke, Matthew Harper, Lorine Häuser, Dickon Hayne, Matthias M Heck, Axel Heidnreich, Kees Hendricksen, Thomas Hermanns, Virginia Hernández Cañas, Stephan Hintermeier, Jean Kuc Hoepffner, Milan Hora, Hong Hong Huang, Isabel Hughes, Stefan Huybrechts, Joseph Ischia, Wolfgang Jaeger, Jitendra Jagtap, Claudio Jeldres, Pocharapong Jenjitranant, Estíbaliz Jiménez-Alcaide, Walz Jochen, Lydia Johns Putra, Pierre Joubert, Mona Kafka, Arveen Kalapara, Sebastian Kälble, Guram Karazanashvili, Mohamed Shamim Khan, Jakob Klemm, Thomas Knoll, Mara Koelker, Sandeep Kondisetty, Badrinath Konety, Fernando Korkes, Jan-Wiebe Korstanje, Ersin Köseoğlu, Anthony Koupparis, Viktor Kovacik, Karl-Friedrich Kowalewski, Alexander Kretschmer, Maximilian C. Kriegmair, Jagdeesh N Kukarni, Girish Kulkarni, Umut Kutukoglu, Mathew Yamoah Kyei, Louis Lacombe, Michael Ladurner, Alastair D. Lamb, Jasmine Lane, Laura Langendries, Tim Larner, Nathan Lawrentschuk, Mahmoud Laymon, Hsiang Ying Lee, Byron Lee, Costantino Leonardo, Jeffrey Leow, Tom Leslie, Evangelos Liatsikos, Leslie Claire Licari, Elena Lievore, Giovanni Liguori, Borje Ljungberg, Carlos Llorente Abarca, Francisco Lopez, Björn Löppenberg, Yair Lotan, Ilaria Lucca, Petr Macek, Osama Mahmoud, Julien Maillard, David Mally, Roy Mano, Paul Manohar, Debora Maravigna, Bartlomiej Markowski, George Martin, Viraj A Master, Riccardo Mastroianni, Roman Mayr, Steve McCombie, Arthur McPhee, Thibault Meert, R. P. Meijer, Valentin Meissner, Hanna Saskia Menold, David Merrilees, Luca-Marie Meyer, Eric R Midenberg, Maria Carmen Mir, Gus Miranda, Daniel Moon, Ahmed Mosbah, Marcio Covas Moschovas, Nicolas Mottet, Alexandre Mottrie, Declan Murphy, Prithvi Murthy, Antonio Nacchia, Rajesh Nair, Tohru Nakagawa, Neema Navai, Arvind Nayak, Michele Nicolazzini, Günter Niegisch, Mahmoud Nosseir, Marco Notarfrancesco, Vladimir Novotny, Sarah O'Neill, Richard Ondrejcek, T. A. Ong, Jason Ooi, Flávio V. Ordones, Christophe Orye, Yassar Osman, Idir Ouzaid, Salvatore M Palermo, CARLOTTA PALUMBO, Rocco Papalia, Michael Stephan Pärli, Caio Pasquali, Francesco Passaro, Vipul Patel, Dattatraya H. Patil, Sisto Perdonà, Sachin Perera, Nathan Perlis, Ophélie Perrot, Dario Pesce, John Piedad, Phillip M Pierorazio, Guillaume Ploussard, Francesco Porpiglia, James Porter, Randi Marisa Pose, Cédric Poyet, Kris B. Prado, Flavia Proietti, Armin Pycha, Pradeep Rao, Benjamin Raunecker, Steffen Rausch, Pedro Recabal-Guiraldes, Maria J Ribal, Patrick O Richard, Lorena Rifa, J. B. Ringia, Benjamin T. Ristau, Michele Rizzo, Lara Rodriguez-Sanchez, Moises Elias Rodríguez-Socarrás, Florian Roghmann, Marta Rossanese, Beat Roth, Mathieu Roumigué, Morgan Roupret, Edward Rowe, Vera C Rutten, Shady Saikali, Rafael Sanchez Salas, N. Sandel, Camilo Sandoval-Herrera, Ziv Savin, Roberto Mario Scarpa, Gerald Schulz, Christian Schwentner, Simone Scuderi, Benjamin Sebastian, Fernando Secin, Kulthe Seetharam Bhat, K. K. Seevalingam, Shomik Sengupta, Amlesh Seth, Jay B. Shah, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Aditya Prakash Sharma, Apoorva Shastri, Masaki Shiota, Karl-Dietrich Sievert, August Sigle, Giuseppe Simone, Shrawan K Singh, Nirmish Singla, Eila C. Skinner, Marcus Sondermann, Gianluca Spena, Victor Srougi, Daniel Steiner, Arnulf Stenzl, Christian Stief, Vincent Tang, Simon Tanguay, Yiloren Tanidir, Stefano Tappero, Patrick Teloken, Pierre Tennstedt, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, George Thalmann, Benjamin Thomas, Christian Thomas, Ramesh Thurairaja, Emanuela Trenti, Stephan Tschirdewahn, Andrea Tubaro, Gabriele Tuderti, Ronald James Urry, Anthony Van Baelen, Michael R. van Balken, Siska van Bruwaene, Antoine G. van der Heijden, Andre van der Merwe, H. G. van der Poel, Charles Van Praet, Joris Vangeneugden, Nikhil Vasdev, Francesca Vedovo, H. Veerman, Lodewikus P. Vermeulen, Malte W. Vetterlein, Ralf Veys, Alvaro Vidal-Faune, Silvia Viganò, Michiel Vlaming, Alessandro VOLPE, Markus von Deimling, Friedrich Von Rundstedt, C. S. Voskuilen, Srinivas Vourganti, Thomas J. Walton, Christopher Weight, Samuel Weprin, Robin Weston, Carl J. Wijburg, Alexander Winter, J. Alfred Witjes, Solomon Woldu, Chris Ho-Ming Wong, Fiona Wu, Wen-Jeng Wu, Evanguelos Xylinas, John Yaxley, Hsin-Chih Yeh, Joseph Zabell, Homi Zargar, Barbora Zemlickova, Logan Zemp, Kenji Zennami, Yuhao Zhang

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Abstract

Background and objective: Perioperative and postoperative complications after major urologic oncologic surgeries are common and clinically significant. Standardised complication grading and reporting are critical for benchmarking, quality improvement, and patient counselling. Our aim was to provide a comprehensive global assessment of complications following radical cystectomy (RC), radical and partial nephrectomy (RN and PN), radical prostatectomy (RP), radical nephroureterectomy (RNU), and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND). Methods: This international, multicentre observational study included 130 034 procedures (29 098 RC, 75 001 RP, 24 476 major kidney surgery, 1459 RPLND) from 180 centres in 33 countries worldwide. Complications were graded using the Clavien-Dindo classification and quantified via the Comprehensive Complication Index, with descriptive analysis of complications at 30 d and 90 d. Key findings and limitations: Complication rates varied by procedure. RC had the highest morbidity, with 30-d grade I–II complication in 40% and grade III–V in 16%, and a 90-d mortality rate of 2.3%. RP had low complication rates (grade I–II: 10–15%; grade III–V: 5–8%; mortality <0.05%), although extended pelvic lymph node dissection increased the incidence of high-grade events to 10%. Morbidity and mortality were generally low after PN; 90-d mortality was higher with open RN, reaching 1.7%. RNU and RPLND had moderate rates of major complications (up to 14%) and low mortality (<1%). Retrospective data collection, potential heterogeneous reporting of complications between centres, and incomplete follow-up in some cases may affect the generalisability of the results. Conclusions and clinical implications: This standardised global data set is the largest assessment of perioperative morbidity across urologic oncologic procedures to date, and provides important real-world evidence. RC remains the most morbid procedure, while RP had markedly lower complication rates. Standardised reporting and international benchmarking are essential to improve surgical safety and guide quality improvement worldwide.
Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Urology Focus
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2026

Keywords

  • Complication reporting
  • Multicentre collaboration
  • Nephrectomy
  • Nephroureterectomy
  • Radical cystectomy
  • Radical prostatectomy
  • Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection
  • Urinary diversion
  • Urologic surgery

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