Long-Term Results of Urolume Urethral Stent for Recurrent Urethral Strictures

Autor:	E. J. G. Milroy, Alison Allen
Rok vydání:	1996
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Urethral stricture business.industry Urology medicine.medical_treatment Stent Lumen (anatomy) Urethral stent Long term results medicine.disease Prosthesis Surgery Stenosis medicine business Medical systems
Zdroj:	Journal of Urology. 155:904-908
ISSN:	1527-3792 0022-5347
Popis:	Purpose: We present the long-term results of the first 50 patients treated with a new urethral stent (UroLume* *American Medical Systems, Inc., Minnetonka, Minnesota.) developed in 1985 for recurrent bulbomembranous urethral strictures.Materials and Methods: All stents were inserted with the patient under general anesthesia using a standard endoscopic delivery system. Of the patients 27 were followed for 5 years or longer, 5 for 4 years and 18 for shorter periods due to death, illness or other factors.Results: Mean (plus or minus standard deviation) maximum flow rate at last followup was 19.7 ml. per second (plus/minus 6.9), and 93 percent of the patients were satisfied with the stent. In 8 patients (16 percent) narrowing developed within the lumen of the stent and in the remaining 84 percent the stent achieved its purpose of maintaining a good urethral lumen. In 9 patients stricture recurred outside the stent because of inaccurate positioning. All of these complications were satisfactorily treate...
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