Male urethral strictures are common and have a significant impact on a patient's quality of life and health-care costs Studies such as retrograde urethrography, voiding cystourethrography, and ...

A urethral stricture can seriously impact a man’s life. Previous treatments available had low success rate, but there are new options available to treat the condition. Dr. Jeremy B. Myers talks about ...

Urethral syndrome is a condition that affects the urethra, which is the tube that extends from your bladder to the outside of your body. The urethra is responsible for transporting urine (and semen, ...

A stricture is a dense scar that occurs somewhere along the urethra. The urethra is the urinary channel that carries urine to the outside of the body. Strictures often cause symptoms such as poor ...

Urethral syndrome is a condition in which pain in the urethra (the tube through which urine exits the body) has no ...

Treating male urethral stricture with the patient’s own buccal mucosal cells, encapsulated in a polymer scaffold as carrier, has been granted a patent in Japan. A longer duration of relief to patients ...

Urethral strictures pose a significant clinical challenge, impacting millions of individuals worldwide and often requiring complex and invasive treatments. In recent years, there has been growing ...

In a recent study published in Cell Reports Medicine journal, researchers in the United States (US) used a shotgun metagenomic approach to characterize urethral microbiomes of specimens from healthy ...

A urethral diverticulum is a condition in which a fluid-filled sac forms on the urethra, the tube that takes urine out of the body. These sacs can become infected and lead to other conditions. A ...

Optilume (Urotronic) is a drug-coated balloon indicated for treating anterior urethral strictures. The technology combines balloon dilation, to expand or widen the strictured area, with delivering an ...

Urethral caruncles are small, harmless lumps that form at the opening of the urethra. Most urethral caruncles cause no symptoms, but they can sometimes lead to pain or bleeding. Treatment usually ...