Abstract

Urethral stricture is narrowing of urethra due to scar tissue, which leads to obstructive voiding dysfunction and can cause potentially serious consequences. The incidence of urethral stricture in India is estimated to comprise about 10% of urological cases encountered in India. common risk factors today are trauma and iatrogenic causes. Less-common causes include inflammatory, infectious (gonococcal urethritis), malignant, congenital and autoimmune causes such as lichen sclerosis. majority of strictures are anterior (92.2%), with most strictures in the bulbar urethra (46.9%), followed by penile (30.5%) and pan-urethral strictures (4.9%). We have tried to address the causes responsible, outcomes of various treatment protocols in current practice, complications associated with this disease and the results of the procedures underwent by the patients at our centre Methods: This study was conducted on 50 consecutive patients diagnosed with anterior urethral stricture attending the Outpatient department and getting admitted to Department of surgery, J.A. Group of hospitals, Gwalior during the period of January 2019 –September 2020 Result: - Urethral stricture is very common in urological opd mostly present with thin stream of urination or acute retension of urine .in our study mostly present patient was age of 31-45 year followed by 45-60 year .half of the patient having history of chronic smoking.14% of patient having history of improper foleys catheterisation in past . Conclusion: Anterior urethral stricture disease is one of the commonest complications of urethral injuries and has a substantial impact on quality of life resulting in infection, bladder calculi, fistulas, sepsis and ultimately renal failure. proper catheterisation was attempted under aseptic precaution.

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