Background: Urethral stricture is a narrowing of the urethra due to scar tissue, which leads to obstructive voiding dysfunction with potentially serious consequences for the entire urinary tract ...

Male urethral strictures account for about 5,000 inpatient visits and 1.5 million office visits per year in the USA. 1 Stricture disease can have a profound impact on quality of life, resulting in ...

Management decisions in cases of bulbar strictures are based on the length of the defect, not the etiology of the stricture; identification of the cause—such as previous urethral or ...

2.4 Current treatment options for recurrent bulbar urethral strictures include endoscopic procedures, urethral dilatation, direct visual internal urethrotomy and urethroplasty. The choice of treatment ...

STRICTURES of the human urethra are of three types: inflammatory, traumatic and congenital. The basic histology1 common to all strictures is a proliferation of fibroblasts in the tunica propria. Th ...

The groundbreaking treatment for recurrent bulbar urethral strictures has had its five-year follow-up data from the ROBUST I study published in the Journal of Urology.

A MAN’S scrotum swelled to the size of a melon after having surgery to repair his urethra. The 30-year-old had struggled to wee normally for two years due to a condition known as a bulbar ure… ...

Background: Urethral stricture is a narrowing of the urethra due to scar tissue, which leads to obstructive voiding dysfunction with potentially serious consequences for the entire urinary tract ...

Optilume done in an outpatient setting could reduce the waiting times for treatment of recurrent bulbar urethral strictures. The comparative clinical evidence shows that Optilume is effective in the ...

The study evaluated 53 men with recurrent bulbar strictures, concluding that 71.7% of patients did not need repeat intervention. Additionally, the average International Prostate Symptom Score ...

STRICTURES of the human urethra are of three types: inflammatory, traumatic and congenital. The basic histology1 common to all strictures is a proliferation of fibroblasts in the tunica propria.