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Can someone help me with the apt follow up regimen following reconstructive urethroplasty for stricture urethra? What defines Failure?
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PANKAJ JOSHI
31 Mar 2020 07:43:40 PMFollow up:
Urolfow on catheter removal.Uroflow every 3 monthsUSG /PVR/sosbest is use of PROMSUroflow every 3 month for 2 years and then every 6 month for 5 years or whatever possible.Failure:Symptomatic poor flow, need for dilatation,VIU -
Dr. Roy Chally
31 Mar 2020 09:46:10 PMTo define success clinically, symptoms and uroflowmetry is adequate. For research and publication urethrogram and cystoscopy is needed during follow up. As mentioned earlier surgical failures are usually seen within a year. Life long follow up is needed to define success.
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Dr Prashant Mulawkar
29 Oct 2020 07:21:09 PMI fully agree what jaideep and Pankaj as mentioned above.
The success of the urethroplasty can be different from different perspectivesMost commonly used is absence of symptoms or absence of secondary procedures. This is the most practical and most popular definition.Invasive Objective measues are cystoscopy, caliberation, RGUNon invasive objective measure: uroflometry, PVR on USGPROM : Patient reported outcome measuresSucess, failure can be anatomic or functionalSo it depends on what you are looking at.I would recommend you to read following articleRef:Erickson BA, Ghareeb GM. Definition of successful treatment and optimal follow-up after urethral reconstruction for urethral stricture disease. Urologic Clinics. 2017 Feb 1;44(1):1-9. -
Venugopal P
09 Nov 2020 09:57:31 AMDear All,
The issue raised by Raju Ranjan on ‘Followup regime post Urethroplasty’ has tickled the feathers and we have suitable replies from some leading luminaries.
Jaideep Mahajani has informed us as to God’s wisdom in providing the urethra with 3 times the luminal size than it actually requires. This is true as in earlier years; it was considered that Urethral Luminal Size was mentioned as Anatomical Size and Physiological Size. The latter was considered as 1/3rd of the former. It was also then considered that for symptoms due to Stricture to develop, the luminal size of urethra should become 1/3rd of the physiological size. Though I used to teach these in my previous years, the pundits of today do not give much relevance for this. On many occasions, though a stricture may be present, it remains asymptomatic and could be so over a long period of time. This is well accepted. This is true as mentioned by Jaideep that even in Post Op Scenario, many patients will remain asymptomatic even after the stricture has recurred.
The old adage ‘once a stricture, always a stricture’ is apt even today. Most interventions are at best to give temporary solace for the patient. Though we report success after Urethroplasty, many of these patients are advised self calibration/self dilatation as part of continuing treatment. Pankaj and Sanjay, I am sure will frown at this, I am sure. Any instrumentation that is proposed after Urethroplasty, even the need for Urethroscopy after a procedure should be considered as instrumentation. If after treatment, any form of followup treatment has to be advised, then it is logical to presume that the procedure has not yielded the result it was aimed for – Long life lasting Cure from Stricture. Roy has aptly mentioned that ‘lifelong followup is needed to define success’.
The article provided by Prashant Mulawkar is worth a read and understanding. He has mentioned that ‘Success and failure could be Anatomical or Functional’. I am providing you the Algorithm mentioned in that article.
I am sure that this might rise a ‘hornet’s nest’ and there could be many more discussions on this topic’
With warm Regards,
Venu
Jaideep Mahajani
30 Mar 2020 10:22:46 PMGod has given three times larger diameter of urethra than required.