Implanted Stent or Long-term Catheter: This treatment might be for people with a severe stricture who don’t want surgery. A tube, called a stent, is put into the urethra to keep it open, or a ...

Ureteral blockages and strictures are often treatable. But, without treatment, they can cause pain, kidney stones, urinary tract infections, kidney damage, and even kidney failure. Both your ureters ...

Background Secondary urethral stone although rare, commonly arises from the kidneys, bladder or are seen in patients with urethral stricture ... with retained urethral catheter of 4months duration.

that cause strictures. Surgical procedures or placing a catheter in your bladder through your urethra can be culprits too.

The catheters are inserted several times a day, once the bladder is drained it is removed. People with bladder control issues or other medical conditions, such as bladder dysfunction, neurologic ...

traditional Foley catheters are held in place by a bubble. That bubble doesn’t go away, even if it’s pulled. “The bleeding can lead to strictures and scars, can cause, actually, urethral ...

The groundbreaking treatment for recurrent bulbar urethral strictures has had its five-year follow-up data from the ROBUST I study published in the Journal of Urology. This data underscores the ...

Olayinka Shittu, has successfully performed an intricate procedure to reconstruct a urethral stricture in a 50-year-old patient. The UCH Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mrs Funmi Adetuyibi ...