Prokar Dasgupta

He reported an improvement in symptoms following a course of capsaicin instillation in managing overactive bladder.[6][7] Whilst working at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, he developed a technique of treating urinary incontinence due to an overactive bladder that has not responded to medications, by injecting botox into the bladder wall using a flexible cystoscope.[8][9] The procedure does not require an operating room or general anaesthetic,[8][10] and after it was presented at the 2005 BAUS Annual Scientific Meeting in Glasgow it became known as the 'Dasgupta technique'.[11][12]

In 2002 he was appointed consultant urologist to Guy's Hospital.[3][13]

In 2005, he led the team that first used a da Vinci robot to perform a keyhole operation to retrieve a kidney as part of a kidney transplant, in Britain.[14]

In 2009, he became the first professor of robotic surgery and urology at King's College London and subsequently was appointed chairman of the King’s-Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery.[3][15][16]

In 2014, he spoke at Pakistan's Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation with proposals to assist Pakistani surgeons with robotic surgery.[17]

In November 2015, he successfully removed a cancerous tumour from a mans prostate using a 3D-printed replica prostate as a pre-surgical aid.[18][19][20] The procedure was broadcast at the worldwide robotic surgery 24 hour event.[21]

In 2020, he was appointed professor of surgery at the surgical academy at King's Health Partners.[5]

Between 2013 and 2020 he was editor-in-chief of the BJU International (BJUI).[13][5]

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• "A minimally invasive technique for outpatient local anaesthetic administration of intradetrusor botulinum toxin in intractable detrusor overactivity". BJU International. 92 (3): 325–326. August 2003. doi:10.1046/j.1464-410x.2003.04312.x. ISSN 1464-4096. PMID 12887493. (Co-author)
• "Robotic urology in the UK: establishing a programme and emerging role". BJU International. 95 (6): 723–724. April 2005. doi:10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05386.x. ISSN 1464-4096. PMID 15794768. (Co-author)
• "Technology Insight: telementoring and telesurgery in urology". Nature Clinical Practice Urology. 3 (11): 611–617. November 2006. doi:10.1038/ncpuro0626. ISSN 1743-4289. PMID 17088929. S2CID 6537774. (Co-author)
• "A Single-centre Early Phase Randomised Controlled Three-arm Trial of Open, Robotic, and Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy (CORAL)". European Urology. 69 (4): 613–621. April 2016. doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2015.07.038. ISSN 1873-7560. PMID 26272237. (Co-author)

• ABC of Prostate Cancer. John Wiley & Sons. 2011. ISBN 978-1-4443-4691-6. (Co-authored with Roger Kirby)
• Surgical Simulation. Anthem Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1-78308-156-1. (Co-authored with Kamran Ahmed, Peter Jaye and Mohammed Shamim Khan)