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About
Nassib Abou Heidar is a urologic surgeon and researcher whose work focuses on robotic-assisted surgery for prostate and bladder cancers, with a particular emphasis on optimizing patient selection and surgical outcomes. His major contributions include identifying preoperative predictors of prolonged hospital stay after robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP), a study with 17 citations that helps clinicians tailor perioperative care. He has also advanced the understanding of frailty in surgical populations, demonstrating through a national survey that RARP is increasingly performed in frailer patients without compromising safety (7 citations). Abou Heidar developed a novel nomogram incorporating the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio to predict lymph node involvement in prostate cancer (6 citations), offering a non-invasive tool for staging. His work extends to pediatric urology, where he compared robotic versus open antegrade colonic enema channels (4 citations), and to bladder cancer, where he evaluated neoadjuvant chemotherapy in variant histology muscle-invasive disease using data from the International Robotic Cystectomy Consortium (3 citations). Through these studies, Abou Heidar has contributed to evidence-based refinements in robotic urologic surgery, improving risk stratification and expanding surgical indications.
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