scholarly journals Visual internal urethrotomy in short segment bulbar stricture

2021 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
VEDAMURTHY POGULA ◽  
ERSHAD GALETI ◽  
BHARGAVA V ◽  
KASHINATH THAKARE ◽  
SANDEEP REDDY ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-77
Author(s):  
Sureshkumar K ◽  
Shukla PK ◽  
Gaharwar APS ◽  
Jeswani M ◽  
Sahu S




2005 ◽  
Vol 173 (5) ◽  
pp. 1595-1597 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANIL MANDHANI ◽  
HIMANSHU CHAUDHURY ◽  
RAKESH KAPOOR ◽  
ANEESH SRIVASTAVA ◽  
DEEPAK DUBEY ◽  
...  


2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankur Jhanwar ◽  
Manoj Kumar ◽  
Satya Narayan Sankhwar ◽  
Gaurav Prakash

Introduction: Our goal was to analyze the outcome between holmium laser and cold knife direct visual internal urethrotomy (DVIU) for short-segment bulbar urethral stricture.Methods: We conducted a prospective study comprised of 112 male patients seen from June 2013 to December 2014. Inclusion criterion was short-segment bulbar urethral stricture (≤1.5cm). Exclusion criteria were prior intervention/urethroplasty, pan-anterior urethral strictures, posterior stenosis, urinary tract infection, and those who lost to followup. Patients were divided into two groups; Group A (n=58) included cold knife DVIU and group B (n=54) included holmium laser endourethrotomy patients. Patient followup included uroflowmetry at postoperative Day 3, as well as at three months and six months.Results: Baseline demographics were comparable in both groups. A total of 107 patients met the inclusion criteria and five patients were excluded due to inadequate followup. Mean stricture length was 1.31 ± 0.252 cm (p=0.53) and 1.34 ± 0.251 cm in Groups A and B, respectively. Mean operating time in Group A was 16.3 ± 1.78 min and in Group B was 20.96 ± 2.23 min (p=0.0001). Five patients in Group A had bleeding after the procedure that was managed conservatively by applying perineal compression. Three patients in Group B had fluid extravasation postoperatively. Qmax (ml/s) was found to be statistically insignificant between the two groups at all followups.Conclusions: Both holmium laser and cold knife urethrotomy are safe and equally effective in treating short-segment bulbar urethral strictures in terms of outcome and complication rate. However, holmium laser requires more expertise and is a costly alternative.



2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 2424
Author(s):  
Hrair Haik Kegham ◽  
Ahmed Imad Khudhur ◽  
Ali Abdulqader Ameen

Background: Urethral stricture (US) is one of the most difficult urological problems to cure adequately and is known to mankind since ages as it had been documented in ancient literature of the Hindus, Egyptians and Greeks and Islamic cultures. The aim of this study is to compare between Ho: YAG (holmium laser) and cold knife direct vision internal urethrotomy for the treatment of short segment urethral stricture regarding efficacy of treatment, operative time and complications.Methods: A prospective study was conducted on a total of 38 male patients with definitive diagnosis of urethral stricture attending the urological outpatient clinic of Al Karama teaching hospital from September 2013 to May 2015. All patients involved agreed to participate in this study.Results: In this study, total number of patients 31 mean age (43.94±11.70). In the holmium group, 16 patients with mean age (42.06±10.43), in cold knife group, 15 patients with mean age (45.93±12.99). Regarding causes of urethral stricture, from total 31 patients 8 patients had infection, 11 traumatic, 10 iatrogenic and 2 unknown (idiopathic), in the holmium 4 patients had infection, 6 traumatic, 4 iatrogenic and one unknown. In cold knife group 4 patients had infection, 5 traumatic, 6 iatrogenic and one was unknown. In holmium group, 12 patients had strictures in anterior segment, 4 patients had it in posterior segment urethra, in cold knife group, there were 10 patients with strictures in anterior segment and 5 patients in posterior segment urethra. The peak flow rates were compared between the two groups pre‑ and post‑operatively at 15 days, 3 months, and 6 months. At day 15 and 3 months, the difference between the means of peak flow rates (PFR) was not statistically significant and was comparable. At 6 months interval, the difference between mean of PFR for holmium and cold knife group was statistically highly significant.Conclusions: Urethral stricture is a disease affecting middle-aged men. Both cold knife and laser urethrotomy are effective method for treatment of short segment urethral stricture. The change in Q-max was observed to be greater with cold knife than with laser with statistical significance at 6 months. Operative time was shorter in cold knife group.





2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Asm Shafiul Azam ◽  
Akm Kawsar Habib ◽  
Sm Mahbub Alam ◽  
Md Habibur Rahman ◽  
Md Abdus Salam ◽  
...  

Objective: This study was conducted to compare the outcome of anastomotic urethroplasty with that of traditional optical internal urethrotomy in the treatment of short-segment bulbar urethral stricture. Methods: This comparative clinical study was conducted in the Department of Urology, Dhaka Medical College Hospital over a period 1 year from January 2007 to December 2008. A total of 50 patients with short-segment (< 2 cm) bulbar urethral strictures were consecutively included in the study. The test statistics used to analyses the data were Fisher’s Exact Probability Test, Student’s t-Test. For all analytical tests, the level of significance was set at 0.05 and p < 0.05 was considered significant. Results: About one-quarter (24%) of patients in OI Urethrotomy group experienced bleeding, 4% epididymitis and another 4% incontinence. In contrast, 8% of patients in Anastomotic Urethroplasty group complained of periurethral leakage, 8% fever and another 8% wound infection. Apart from bleeding, all the complications were almost homogeneously distributed between groups.Six (24%) of patients in OI Urethrotomy Group exhibited narrow urinary stream at month 3, as opposed to none in Anastomotic Urethroplasty Group (p = 0.001). Nearly 30% of patients in OI Urethrotomy Group had narrow urinary stream at month 6 compared 4% in Anastomotic Urethroplasty Group (p = 0.024). Of the 25 patients in OI Urethrotomy Group, 1(4%) developed UTI at month 3 and 5(20%) at month 6. None of the patients in Anastomotic Urethropasty Group developed UTI. There was significant difference between groups in terms of UTI at month 6 (p = 0.025).The recurrence rate of stricture in OI Urethrotomy was 24% (6 out of 25 patients) at month 3. However, none in Anastomotic Urethroplasty Group had history of recurrence of stricture (p = 0.011). At baseline the mean uroflowmetry was 5.5 ml/sec in both groups which immediately increased to 25.3 ± 2.6 ml/sec and 23.9 ± 2.2 ml/sec in OI urethrotomy and Anastomotic Urethroplasty groups respectively and then dropped to 18.4 ± 6.3 ml/sec and 20.2 ± 2.6 ml/sec in OI Urethrotomy and Anastomotic Urethroplasty groups respectively at month 3 and to 17.8 ± 6.4 ml/sec and 19.6 ± 2.6 ml/sec respectively at month 6. Conclusion: This study concludes that Anastomotic Urethroplasty is an effective and satisfactory technique for the treatment of short-segment bulbar urethral stricture. Bangladesh Journal of Urology, Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan 2013 p.21-25







2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Balantine U. Eze ◽  
Frank K. Chacha ◽  
Timothy U. Mbaeri

Direct visual internal urethrotomy (DVIU) is a minimally invasive treatment for urethral stricture and is usually done in lithotomy position. We presented a case of a 35-year-old man with complex deformities of both lower limbs from birth. The lower limbs were severely wasted with ankylosis of the hips, flexion of the knee joints and dorsiflexion at the ankle joints. He had a history of progressively worsening difficult in urination characterized by frequency, urgency, urgency incontinence, nocturia, poor urinary stream (improved by straining), intermittency and feeling of incomplete bladder emptying. He had occasional dysuria and total hematuria. He was not a known hypertensive or diabetic patient. No history of trauma, previous urethral instrumentation, and no history of purulent urethral discharge before the onset of problems. On presentation, his abdomen was full with slight suprapubic distention. The anal sphincter was spastic and the prostate was not enlarged. He had normal non-circumcised male external genitalia. There was no spinal deformity and the upper limbs were normal. White cell count was 14,000 cells/ mm3 with a differential neutrophil of 85.5% and urine culture showed moderate growth of coliforms. Abdominopelvic ultrasound showed a thickened bladder wall with mild hydronephrosis bilaterally and a retrograde urethrography and micturating cystourethrography showed 3 short segment bulbar urethral strictures. There was also a Christmas tree appearance of the bladder. A diagnosis of bladder outlet obstruction secondary to multiple short segment idiopathic bulbar urethral strictures on background neurogenic bladder was made. He had intravenous antibiotics for 48 hours and subsequently a DVIU under spinal anesthesia and in the supine position. Catheter was removed on the 7th day post procedure and he started clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) with 12 French catheters. Seven months post procedure, patient is still satisfied with the outcome of his treatment. We concluded that DVIU can be done safely in the supine position and CIC can help improve post procedure outcome and in managing comorbid neurogenic bladder.



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