Definition of successful treatment and optimal follow-up after urethral reconstruction for urethral stricture disease

BA Erickson, GM Ghareeb - Urologic Clinics, 2017 - urologic.theclinics.com
Background Male urethral stricture disease (USD) has an estimated prevalence of 0.6%. 1
The most typical way men present with USD is with obstructive voiding symptoms (eg, slow …

Patient-reported outcome measures in urethral reconstruction

N Baradaran, LA Hampson, TC Edwards… - Current urology …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Treatment of anterior urethral stricture disease (USD) has
shifted from endoscopic approaches to urethroplasty with significantly higher success rates …

One-Year Results for the ROBUST III Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Optilume® Drug-Coated Balloon for Anterior Urethral Strictures

SP Elliott, K Coutinho, KJ Robertson… - The Journal of …, 2022 - auajournals.org
Purpose: The Optilume® drug-coated balloon (DCB) is a urethral dilation balloon with a
paclitaxel coating that combines mechanical dilation for immediate symptomatic relief with …

The effect of minimally invasive prostatectomy on practice patterns of American urologists

DT Oberlin, AS Flum, JD Lai, JJ Meeks - Urologic Oncology: Seminars and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Introduction and objectives To determine how robotic prostatectomy affects practice patterns
of urologists, we examined the case volume characteristics among certifying urologists for …

Trends in urethral stricture disease etiology and urethroplasty technique from a multi-institutional surgical outcomes research group

KJ Cotter, AE Hahn, BB Voelzke, JB Myers… - Urology, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective To analyze contemporary urethroplasty trends and urethral stricture etiologies
over a 7-year study period among urologists from a large multi-institutional surgical …

Changing trends in reconstruction of complex anterior urethral strictures: from skin flap to perineal urethrostomy

JS Fuchs, N Shakir, MJ McKibben, JM Scott, B Viers… - Urology, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate procedural trends and outcomes for reconstruction of complex
strictures at our tertiary center over the last decade. Methods We retrospectively reviewed …

Assessment of the male urethral reconstruction learning curve

SF Faris, JB Myers, BB Voelzke, SP Elliott, BN Breyer… - Urology, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate the urethroplasty learning curve. Published success rates of urethral
reconstruction for urethral stricture disease are high even though these procedures can be …

Clinical significance of cystoscopic urethral stricture recurrence after anterior urethroplasty: a multi-institution analysis from Trauma and Urologic Reconstructive …

N Baradaran, KB Fergus, RA Moses, DP Patel… - World journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose To assess the functional Queryoutcome of patients with cystoscopic recurrence of
stricture post-urethroplasty and to evaluate the role of cystoscopy as initial screening tool to …

Endoscopic treatments prior to urethroplasty: trends in management of urethral stricture disease

MJ Moynihan, B Voelzke, J Myers, BN Breyer… - BMC urology, 2020 - Springer
Background To determine if the number of endoscopic treatments of urethral stricture
disease (USD) prior to urethroplasty has changed in the context of new AUA guidelines on …

A drug-coated balloon treatment for urethral stricture disease: two-year results from the ROBUST I study

RA Mann, R Virasoro, JM DeLong… - Canadian …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction Mechanical balloon dilation and direct visualization internal urethrotomy (DVIU)
are the most widely used treatments for urethral stricture disease in the US, but recurrence …