Health care lockdown involving the cancellation or postponement of non-urgent examinations and treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced the number of emergency department visits by urological patients [1, 2]. Since most urological conditions are treated non-urgently, a major result of the lockdown may be a cumulating treatment backlog in elective urological surgery. Indeed, the predicted global urological surgery backlog has been estimated to be 2.5 million procedures.
Healthcare lockdown resulted in a treatment backlog in elective urological surgery during COVID‐19