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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jcm12051741
Keywords
urethra; chronic; stricture; fibrotic tissue; stenting; transurethral remove
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This study investigated the optimal strategy for the treatment of chronic recurrent urethral strictures longer than 3 cm, using a temporary urethral stent. The results showed that temporary bulbar urethral stents combined with transurethral resection of fibrotic scar tissue seemed to be the optimal minimally invasive treatment strategy for chronic urethral strictures with a long fibrotic scar.
This study investigated the optimal strategy for the treatment of chronic recurrent urethral strictures longer than 3 cm, using a temporary urethral stent. Between September 2011 and June 2021, 36 patients with chronic bulbomembranous urethral strictures underwent temporary urethral stent placement. Retrievable self-expandable polymer-coated bulbar urethral stents (BUSs) were placed in 21 patients (group A), and thermo-expandable nickel-titanium alloy urethral stents were placed in 15 patients (group M). Each group was subdivided into those with and without transurethral resection (TUR) of fibrotic scar tissue. The urethral patency rates at 1 year after stent removal were compared between the groups. The patients in group A showed a higher urethral patency maintenance rate at 1 year after stent removal than those in group M (81.0% vs. 40.0%, log rank test p = 0.012). Analysis of subgroups in which TUR was performed due to severe fibrotic scar, showed that the patients in group A showed a significantly higher patency rate than patients in group M (90.9% vs. 44.4%, log rank test p = 0.028). In the treatment of chronic urethral strictures with a long fibrotic scar, temporary BUS combined with TUR of fibrotic tissue seems to be the optimal minimally invasive treatment strategy.
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