urethroplasty

With an average operating room time of between three and eight hours, urethroplasty is not considered a minor operation.

Bhandari's eclectic interests include kidney transplantation, stone disease, and urethroplasty.

After three months, urethroplasty (urethral extension) is performed.

Note: Urethroplasty is generally well tolerated with a high rate of success, serious complications occur in fewer than ten percent of patients.

More than 60 patients have been treated with the experimental procedure, balloon urethroplasty, at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Castaneda said.

For his suggestions on the cure of varicocele and on the operation of urethroplasty he received in 1842 one of the Montyon prizes.

Expected average success rate: The success rate for this procedure is above 95%, anastomotic urethroplasty is considered the "gold standard" of surgical repair options.

These patients need tubularized substitution urethroplasty, which is replacement of the bulbar urethra with a various number of tubularized flaps ranging from scrotal skin to sigmoid colon (and others).

There are four commonly utilized types of urethroplasty performed today; anastomotic, buccal mucosal onlay graft, scrotal or penile island flap (graft), and Johansen's urethroplasty.

Expected average success rate: The success rate for this procedure is between 87 and 98%, buccal mucosal onlay urethroplasty is considered the best of repair options for strictures greater than 2 cm in length.

The Johansen's procedure sometimes referred to as "Johanson's urethroplasty" is a two stage procedure which was developed during the 1950s and 1960s by Swedish surgeon Dr. Bengt Johansen, and was originally designed as a surgical repair for hypospadias.