A stricture is a dense scar that occurs somewhere along the urethra. The urethra is the urinary channel that carries urine to the outside of the body. Strictures often cause symptoms such as poor ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Treating male urethral stricture with the patient’s own buccal mucosal cells, encapsulated in a polymer scaffold as carrier, has been granted a patent in Japan. A longer ...

The Optilume device includes a balloon coated with paclitaxel. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Optilume ® Urethral Drug Coated Balloon (DCB) to treat patients with obstructive ...

Guidelines for male urethral stricture The guidelines provide a clinical framework for the diagnosis and treatment of male urethral stricture. A clinical framework to guide providers in the diagnosis ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A novel and relatively pain-less treatment method for male urethral stricture using patients own buccal mucosal cells has been reported as successful in four out of six ...

STRICTURES of the human urethra are of three types: inflammatory, traumatic and congenital. The basic histology 1 common to all strictures is a proliferation of fibroblasts in the tunica propria. This ...

HealthDay News — A new guideline by the American Urological Association, published in The Journal of Urology, provides a clinical framework for the diagnosis and treatment of male urethral stricture.

Treating male urethral stricture with the patient’s own buccal mucosal cells, encapsulated in a polymer scaffold as carrier, has been granted a patent in Japan. A longer duration of relief to patients ...

NICE commissioned an external assessment centre (EAC) to review the evidence submitted by the company. This section summarises that review. Full details of all the evidence are in the project ...

Urethral strictures refer to the narrowing of the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine out of the body. This condition is typically caused by scarring, which can block or narrow the urethra, ...