Prokar DasguptaOBEFRCS is an Indian-born British surgeon and academic who is professor of surgery at the surgical academy at King's Health Partners, London, UK. Since 2002, he has been consultant urologist to Guy's Hospital, and in 2009 became the first professor of robotic surgery and urology at King's, and subsequently the chairman of the King's College-Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery.
Early in his career, he was a medical research fellow to Clare Fowler at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen's Square, where they developed an outpatient procedure for treating urinary incontinence in people with an overactive bladder that did not respond to usual medical treatment. They were the first in the UK to use this method of injecting Botox into the bladder wall using a flexible cystoscope, and it subsequently became known as the "Dasgupta technique".
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Dasgupta's research has included looking at the role and safety of the chilli component capsaicin.[8] In this field, he demonstrated an improvement in symptoms following a course of capsaicin instillation into the bladder in managing urinary incontinence due to an overactive bladder.[9] In 1998, his paper on the topic showed that in people treated with capsaicin instillation, bladder biopsies were normal after five years.[8]
Whilst working at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, as a medical research fellow to Clare Fowler, they developed a technique of injecting botox into the bladder wall to target bladder nerves for treating urinary incontinence due to an overactive bladder that did not respond to traditional measures and usual medications. They were the first in the UK to use this method using a flexible cystoscope.[10][11][12] The procedure does not require an operating room or general anaesthetic.[10][11] In 2002 he was appointed consultant urologist to Guy's Hospital.[13][14] Three years later, his Botox technique was presented at the 2005 BAUS Annual Scientific Meeting in Glasgow and became known as the 'Dasgupta technique'.[15][16] He was a co-principal investigator in the first randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study pertaining to the procedure, conducted at Guy's Hospital, and it was included as a second-line treatment for refractory overactive bladder by the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in 2006.[10][17] It was endorsed by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2014, as a second-line option following failure of other treatments.[18] Others have since used and modified the procedure.[11]
Robotics
da Vinci robot
In 2005, Dasgupta led the team that used a da Vinci robot to perform one of the early keyhole operations to retrieve a kidney as part of a kidney transplant, in Britain.[19][20]
In November 2015, he successfully removed a cancerous tumour from a man's prostate using a 3D-printed replica prostate as a pre-surgical aid.[26][27][28] The procedure was broadcast at the worldwide robotic surgery 24 hour event.[29]
He is involved in developing treatments for prostate cancer with King's College's Prostate Cancer Research Centre,[7] of which he is a trustee.[33] He is also a trustee of the prostate charities The Malcolm Coptcoat Trust.[34]
In 2020 he received the St Peter's Medal from the BAUS.[38][39] In 2021 the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh made him Kings James IV Professor of surgery.[40] In 2022 the Indian government awarded him the Padma Shri.[4][41]
↑ "Padma Awardees 2022"(PDF). Padma Awards, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India. Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
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