Clinical presentation and treatment of urethral stricture in Hawari Hospital.
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https://doi.org/10.37376/benunivmedj.v1i4.2473Keywords:
Urethral stricture disease, Management, Hawari University Hospital.Abstract
Urethral structure disease (USD) is a common urological problem and considered difficult to man to high recurrence rate and wide variety of management approach. The objective of this study was to the pattern of incidence, clinical presentation, causes, and treatment of urethral stncture in Hawari University Hospital Benghazi, Libya.
Patients and methods: This study was a retrospective cohort analysis conducted among consecutive individuals pre diagnosed and/or were treated for urethral stricture in Hawan University Hospital using medical data from January 1st 2017 to December 31st 2019.
Results: A total of 118 cases of urethral structure were recorded between 2017 and 2019, The mean age of all ents was 47.5 years, approximate 98.2% were males and 1.69% were female. However, the peak incidence of uring urethral stricture between 60-79 years of age and represents approximately 37.2%. The most common presenting symptoms were obstructive voiding symptoms and accounts about 50.8% of all cases. Eighty three of Strictures (70.3%) were due to trauma. The most common procedures used to manage urethral structures were visual urethrotomy (67.7%), cystoscopy and dilatation (19.4%), and urethroplasty (5%).
Conclusion: Trauma is the leading cause of urethral structure in urology center. Iatrogenic strctures were com mon. Urethroplasty gives satisfactory outcome. Efforts should be made to reduce urethral strcture.
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