Treatment Success After Urethroplasty: The Ongoing Quest for a Pragmatic and Universal Definition

Wesley Verla; Guglielmo Mantica; Marjan Waterloos; Jan Adamowicz; Mikołaj Frankiewicz; Andrea Cocci; Clemens M Rosenbaum; Felix Campos-Juanatey; Malte W Vetterlein; Trauma and Reconstructive Urology Working Party of the European Association of Urology Young Academic Urologists

doi:10.1016/j.euf.2023.01.017

Treatment Success After Urethroplasty: The Ongoing Quest for a Pragmatic and Universal Definition

Eur Urol Focus. 2023 Jul;9(4):617-620. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2023.01.017. Epub 2023 Feb 13.

Authors

Wesley Verla¹, Guglielmo Mantica², Marjan Waterloos³, Jan Adamowicz⁴, Mikołaj Frankiewicz⁵, Andrea Cocci⁶, Clemens M Rosenbaum⁷, Felix Campos-Juanatey⁸, Malte W Vetterlein⁹; Trauma and Reconstructive Urology Working Party of the European Association of Urology Young Academic Urologists

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
² Department of Urology, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.
³ Department of Urology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; Department of Urology, AZ Maria Middelares, Ghent, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Regenerative Medicine, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
⁵ Department of Urology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland.
⁶ Department of Urology and Andrology, Careggi Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
⁷ Department of Urology, Asklepios Hospital Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany.
⁸ Andrology and Reconstructive Urology Unit, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, School of Medicine, Cantabria University, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain.
⁹ Department of Urology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: m.vetterlein@uke.de.

PMID: 36792406
DOI: 10.1016/j.euf.2023.01.017

Abstract

There is no consensus on the ideal definition of success after urethroplasty, which makes research, quality control, and comparisons challenging. Ongoing research endeavors are focused on achieving consensus regarding the optimal battery of outcomes for evaluation of patients after urethroplasty.

MeSH terms

Humans
Retrospective Studies
Treatment Outcome
Urethra / surgery
Urethral Stricture* / surgery