scholarly journals Comparison of Dartos flap and spongioplasty in Snodgrass urethroplasty in distal penile hypospadias

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. e000294
Author(s):  
Anju Verma ◽  
Shahid Murtaza ◽  
Vijay Kumar Kundal ◽  
Amita Sen ◽  
Divya Gali

BackgroundHypospadias surgery has been continuously evolving, although there is no single technique which can be said to be perfect and suitable for all types of hypospadias. Tubularized incised plate (TIP) urethroplasty (Snodgrass procedure) is presently the most common surgical procedure performed for distal penile hypospadias (DPH). The aim of this study was to compare the outcome of TIP urethroplasty using Dartos flap (DF) and spongioplasty as second layer in DPH.MethodsA total of 30 patients of DPH were repaired using TIP urethroplasty with DF or spongioplasty as second layer from January 2017 to June 2018. Out of 30 patients, TIP with DF was done in 15 patients (group A) and TIP with spongioplasty was done in the remaining 15 patients (group B). Preoperative mean age and weight were comparable in both groups. Postoperative complications, namely, postoperative edema, residual chordee, urethrocutaneous fistula (UCF), meatal stenosis and final cosmesis, were recorded.ResultsIn both groups, complications included postoperative edema (Gp A-1Gp B-1), residual chordee (Gp A-1, Gp B-1), UCF (Gp A-3, Gp B-4), meatal stenosis (Gp A-1, Gp B-5) and poor cosmesis (Gp A-3, Gp B-4). Wound infection was managed with appropriate antibiotics, and meatal stenosis responded to calibration in five patients.Although it seems that DF has a better outcome clinically, the difference between the two techniques was statistically not significant.ConclusionDF as an additional cover to TIP is associated with an acceptable complication and has good cosmesis compared with spongioplasty; however, the difference is not statistically significant.

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Md Shah Alam Talukder ◽  
Debesh Ch Talukder ◽  
Md Abdullah Al Mahmud ◽  
Mohammed Showkot Ali ◽  
Nadiuzzaman Khan ◽  
...  

Urethro cutaneous fistula( U-C fistula) is the most common complication of hypospadias surgery. It frequently needs separate surgeries for closure, which bring a great deal of physical and mental agony and monetary involvement of the patient and his family. Many efforts have been invented to prevent the u-c fistula with various degree of success. We would like to see the outcome of “Preputial Dartos Reinforced Snodgrass Tubularized Incised Plate Urethroplasties in Distal Hypospadias to Prevent Urethrocutaneous Fistula”. This interventional study was performed to see the outcome of preputial dartos reinforced Snodgrass tubularized incised plate urethroplasties in distal hypospadias specially urethrocutaneous fistula prevention. For this purpose 40 patients were selected having distal hypospadias age ranging from 6 months to 11 years admitted in the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Mymensingh Medical College & Hospital during the period of January 2010 to March 2011. Out of 40 patients, 20 were in group-A (preputial dartos flap) and another 20 were included in group - B (without flap). All this patients were followed by perioperative and postoperative care. Few patients developed postoperative pyrexia, wound infection, stent blockage which were treated accordingly leaving minimum morbidity. Both groups of patients were followed up for 3 months after surgery. Present study is probably a better technique to prevent fistulaassociated morbidities in distal Snodgrass TIP urethroplasties.J. Paediatr. Surg. Bangladesh 3(1): 12-17, 2012 (January)


2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
MMR Shibli ◽  
S Hoque ◽  
AM Shahinoor ◽  
MAB Akan ◽  
S Zabeen

Background: Hypospadias is one of the most common congenital anomalies, occurring approximately 1in 200 to 1in 300 live birth. Urethrocutaneous fistula (U-C fistula), and meatal stenosis are the most common complication of hypospadias surgery. To reduce these complications there are different surgical procedures. Snodgrass technique is now the popular technique for its low complication rate and better cosmetic outcome. Objective: To explore the short term outcome of interrupted suture compared to continuos suture in snodgrass technique urethroplasty for distal penile hypospadias. Method: It was a randomized control trial study carried out in the department of Paediatric surgery, BSMMU during the period of June 2008 to September 2009. 32 patients with distal penile hypospadias were selected according to set inclusion and exclusion criteria. Subjects who included in the study were randomly distributed in two groups. In group A odd number of patients and in group B even number of patients were included for randomization. Group A (interrupted suture) was treated as interventional group and Group B (continuous suture) as control group. Penile stent was removed on 8th and 10th POD after snodgrass technique of urethroplasty in coronal and subcoronal hypospadias respectively and observed for 4 weeks for two common complications- Urethrocutaneous fistula (U-C fistula), and meatal stenosis. Unpaired t test, Fisher’s exact test were used to see the level of significance. Result: In group A out of 16 subjects; 2 subjects (12.5%) develop Urethrocutaneous fistula and 1 subject (6.3%) had developed meatal stenosis. In group B out of 16 subjects 6 subjects (37.5%) had developed Urethrocutaneous fistula and 3 subjects (18.8%) developed meatal stenosis. Conclusion: Urethrocutaneous fistula (U-C fistula), and meatal stenosis are the most common complication of hypospadias repair and the occurrence of these two complications are less in interrupted suture than that of continuous suture in Snodgrass technique urethroplasty for distal hypospadias. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jpsb.v2i1.15160 Journal of Paediatric Surgeons of Bangladesh (2011) Vol. 2 (1): 26-30


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 3839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hussein Lafta Hashim ◽  
Ahmed Al Adhami ◽  
Ali Hussain Abid

Background: Hypospadias is a relatively common congenital defect of the male external genitalia. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether the early removal of urethral stent following TIP Snodgrass repair of hypospadias can reduces postoperative complications of this procedure.Methods: In Al-Yarmouk teaching hospital, the surgical procedure included 61 tabularized incised plate (TIP) repairs for penile hypospadias. The patients were prospectively observed over 36 months and randomized into 2 groups, group (A) was 30 patients where the urethral stent was removed after 24 hours of operation, and group (B) was 31 cases where the stent removed in the 6th postoperative day. Suprapubic urinary diversion was done for all patients. All of the operations were performed by the same surgeon. Complications and cosmetic appearance were documented at last follow-up.Results: The average age of the patients was 3.9 years, urethrocutaneous fistula was observed in 2 cases in group A (6.6 %), while 11 patients had fistula in group B (35.4 %) with a statistically significant difference (p < 0.05).  meatal stenosis was reported in 4 patients in (group A) (13.3%), while 12 patients had such complication in group B (38.7%) with a statistically Significant difference as (P< 0.05). 6.6 % of group A developed wound infection, while 32.2 % had wound infection postoperatively in group B with a statistically significant difference (P< 0.05). Complete surgical failure when wound dehiscence occurs, it was found that no significant difference between the 2 groups (P value=0.1).Conclusions: TIP repair is a versatile operation that can be performed in almost all cases of penile hypospadias. We believe that early stent removal after 1 day of surgery for hypospadias repair simplifies postoperative care, highly reduces risk of development of urethrocutaneous fistula, meatal stenosis and wound infection, so obviates the need for antibiotics.


2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shabib Ahmed ◽  
Yasser A. Noureldin ◽  
Hammoda Sherif ◽  
Ahmed Zahran ◽  
Rabea Omar

Abstract Background To compare the outcomes between classic tubularized incised plate (C-TIP), known as Snodgrass urethroplasty, and grafted TIP (G-TIP) in the repair of primary distal penile hypospadias. Methods Parents of all children presented to our tertiary care institution with primary distal penile hypospadias were asked to participate in this study. Patients were equally randomized using closed envelope method into two groups; Group A underwent repair using G-TIP and Group B underwent repair using the C-TIP. Circumcised cases and/or cases with penile chordee > 30 degrees were excluded from this study. Urethral catheter was kept for 7 to 10 days after surgery. The success rate and cosmetic outcomes assessed by HOSE score were evaluated at 6-month postoperatively. Results A total of 55 patients were recruited in each group. One hundred and seven patients of the 110 patients (54 and 53 in groups A and B, respectively) were evaluated at 6-month postoperatively using HOSE score. All preoperative data were comparable in both groups. Success was documented in 49/54 patients (90.7%) in group A. The five failures were secondary to two cases of glans dehiscence and three cases of residual postoperative chordee. Whereas, success was documented in 48/53 patients (90.5%) in group B. Complications were: a case of meatal stenosis, three cases of fistula, and a case of combined meatal stenosis and fistula. The HOSE score was comparable between the two groups (15.4 ± 1.09 vs. 15.6 ± 0.55; p = 0.29). However, the operative time was statistically longer in the G-TIP compared with the C-TIP (91.4 ± 6.2 min vs. 85.2 ± 6.3 min; p < 0.001), respectively. Conclusion The G-TIP urethroplasty provided comparable results with C-TIP in terms of cosmoses, success rate, and complications. However, G-TIP was accompanied with significantly longer operative time.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-70
Author(s):  
Abhi Kumar Chakraborty ◽  
Sajal Kumar Majumdar ◽  
Mirza Kamrul Zahid ◽  
Sayed Mahmudur Rahman ◽  
Dipankar Kumar Saha ◽  
...  

Background/purpose: The tubularized incised plate urethroplasty (Snodgrass technique) presents the procedure of choice for distal hypospadias repair. Fistula formation is the most common complication with various rates. Avoiding overlap of suture lines in the Snodgrass repair is critical to minimize fistula formation through second-layer coverage of the neourethra. We compared the outcome of double- layer dartos flaps to flapless procedure in the tubularized incised plate urethroplasty for distal hypospadias repair to assess the effectiveness of dartos flap in this method.Methods: Our study included 28 patients aged upto 12 years who were treated with tubularized incised plate urethroplasty for distal hypospadias in Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital from April 2010 to December 2011. They were divided into two groups. Group A (14 patients) had double dartos flap coverings. Group B (14 patients) had no dartos flap covering. The dissected dorsal dartos flap was bisected vertically to form two pedicle wings. Each wing was rotated laterally from either side of the glans to cover the neourethra ventrally in a double-layer fashion.Result: Mean follow up period was 9 months. In Group A, one patient (7%) developed fistula and one (7%) superficial skin necrosis. On the other hand three (21%) patients developed fistula and one patient (7%) meatal stenosis in group B, who were treated with Snodgrass procedure without using dartos flap. All successful repaired hypospadias patients of both groups had a cosmetically normal looking circumcised penis with ventrally slit meatus.Conclusions : Double dartos flaps covering of the neourethra is a simple procedure and could be effective for the prevention of urethrocutaneous fistula after tubularized incised plate urethroplasty.J. Paediatr. Surg. Bangladesh 3(2): 65-70, 2012 (July)


2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
M Anisuzzaman ◽  
MAB Akan ◽  
R Ara ◽  
MM Hasan ◽  
MN Zaman ◽  
...  

Background: Hypospadias is a common congenital anomaly of male urethra. Surgical repair is the only treatment of this defect, but there is no single, universally acceptable technique for its repair . Snodgrass technique is now popular for its low complication rate, shorter operative time, vertically oriented slit like meatus and better cosmetic outcome. Objective: To evaluate the role of vascularized dorsal dartos pedicle flap over the neourethra in terms of postoperative urethrocutaneous fistula formation between two groups of patients of distal penile hypospadias. Methodology: Thirty two patients were included in this study. They were divided in group A and group B on the basis of serial number of patients. Snodgrass urethroplasty was done in group A considered as control and in group B, Snodgrass urethroplasty was done with additional dorsal dartos flap by buttonhole technique considered as interventional group. The outcome of both groups in terms of post operative urethrocutaneous fistula were evaluated. Results: In this study in group A, urethrocutaneous fistula developed in 6 patients out of 16 patients. Among the fistulas, 5 were situated at the coronal level and 1 at the hypospadiac meatus level. In group B, urethrocutaneous fistula developed in 1 patient out of 16 patients and the fistula occurred at the coronal level. In either group, all the fistulas are developed after removal of the catheter. In terms of post operative urethrocutaneous fistula formation in between the two groups, the results were statistically significant. Conclusion: Snodgrass urethroplasty with additional dorsal dartos flap by buttonhole technique have better outcome than without additional dorsal dartos flap in terms of postoperative fistula formation. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jpsb.v2i1.15161 Journal of Paediatric Surgeons of Bangladesh (2011) Vol. 2 (1): 31-35


2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Mohsena Akhter ◽  
Ishrat Bhuiyan ◽  
Zulfiqer Hossain Khan ◽  
Mahfuza Akhter ◽  
Gulam Kazem Ali Ahmad ◽  
...  

Background: Scabies is one of the most common skin diseases in our country. It is caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis, which is an ecto-parasite infesting the epidermis. Scabies is highly contagious. Prevalence is high in congested or densely populated areas. Individuals with close contact with an affected person should be treated with scabicidal which is available in both oral and topical formulations. The only oral but highly effective scabicidal known to date is Ivermectin. Amongst topical preparations, Permethrin 5 % cream is the treatment of choice. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy & safety of oral Ivermectin compared to topical Permethrin in the treatment of scabies. Methodology: This prospective, non-randomized study was conducted at the out-patient department of Dermatology and Venereology of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College & Hospital over a period of 6 months, from August 2016 to January 2017. The study population consisted of one hundred patients having scabies, enrolled according to inclusion criteria. They were divided into two groups. group A was subjected to oral Ivermectin and the group B to Permethrin 5% cream. Patients were followed up on day 7 and 14 for assessment of efficacy and safety. Result: The mean scoring with SD in group A (Ivermectin) and group B (Permethrin) were 8.26 ± 2.22 and 7.59 ± 2.01 respectively at the time of observation. The difference between the mean score of the two group is not significant (p=0.117) the mean scoring with SD in group A and group B were 4.54 ± 2.05 and 1.64 ± 1.84 respectively at 7thdays. The difference between the mean score of the two group is significant (p<0.001). The mean scoring with SD in group A and group B were 2.68± 2.35 and .36± 1.10 respectively at 14th day difference between the mean score of the group is significant (p<0.001). Conclusion: Topical application of permethrin 5% cream is more effective and safer than oral Ivermectin in the treatment of scabies. TAJ 2020; 33(1): 41-47


1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 833-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micheline Hanna

Abstract In order to quantitatively assess the effect of sample storage conditions on the body burden analysis of organic contaminants, a comparative analysis was carried out on the unionid mussel Elliptic complanata. The mussels were divided into two groups, each with distinct storage conditions, while Group A was kept in the freezer at −20°C, Group B was kept in the refrigerator for five days at 5°C. All the compounds present in the control were also present in Group B samples. Analysis of the organic contaminants in each of these two groups showed that for total PCB concentrations, the two treatments were not significantly different; however when compared individually 6 of the 13 PCB congeners showed significant differences. The observed differences were relatively small for individual PCB congeners (7.1 to 15.3%), higher for chlorobenzenes (10.5 to 36.4%), and yet higher for HCE (44.1%); the difference for HCE, although large is nevertheless not significant, even if only marginally so.


Author(s):  
Rosalía Romero-Tena ◽  
Carmen Llorente-Cejudo ◽  
María Puig-Gutiérrez ◽  
Raquel Barragán-Sánchez

Without having a reaction time, the pandemic has caused an unprecedented transformation in universities around the world, leading to a revolution from structured models anchored in the conception of transmission of training towards a teaching approach-learning saved thanks to the incorporation of technology. This study aims to verify whether the pandemic situation has influenced the digital competence self-perception of students. Comparing two groups during the academic years 2019/2020 and 2020/2021, the instrument used is the questionnaire for digital competence “DigCompEdu Check-In” for future teachers. After the educational intervention, group A (before COVID-19) presented higher self-perceptions of competence than group B (during COVID-19); the pandemic situation caused by COVID-19 has negatively influenced students’ self-perception of their digital skills in the pretest in the different dimensions under study. Before receiving the training, the group that did not experience the pandemic enjoyed a higher self-perception of their competencies than the group that experienced the pandemic. The data obtained indicate that the difference exists, and that it is statistically significant, and may be a consequence of the clear relationship between self-perception and the way in which students face reality through their personal and subjective vision.


2021 ◽  
pp. 112067212110233
Author(s):  
Marcelina Sobczak ◽  
Magdalena Asejczyk ◽  
Malwina Geniusz

Objectives: The main goal of this research was to determine the differences between the values of intraocular pressure (IOP) in the supine and sitting positions, and to assess the effect of age and cardiovascular parameters. Methods: Seventy-two healthy adults were enrolled and classified into age groups: 20–30 years (group A), 31–40 years (group B), and 41–71 years (group C). Corneal biometry and cardiovascular parameters, such as heart rate (HR), were measured. IOP measurements were taken in the sitting position (IOPS) and in the supine position (IOPL) using the iCare® Pro tonometer. Results: A significant difference between the IOPS and IOPL in the entire cohort was found ( p < 0.001). Regarding the age subgroups, a significant difference ( p < 0.001) between the IOPS and IOPL was obtained in group A (2.6 ± 1.6 mmHg) and group C (1.5 ± 1.3 mmHg). There were no significant differences in the IOPS between groups. The highest IOP values were obtained for group A. The correlations between HR and IOPS are statistically significant for group A and group B, and for HR and IOPL-S for group B only. Multivariate analysis showed that HR has a significant influence on the difference in IOP in the two body positions. Conclusion: A statistically significant difference between the effect of age and the values of IOPS and IOPL was shown. Cardiovascular parameters showed some relevant statistical dependencies, but with a rather marginal significance in young people. The influence of body position for the measurement of IOP for healthy subjects does not seem to matter, despite the fact that there are some dependencies that are statistically significant.


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