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Urethral strictures in men: symptoms
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Symptoms of the urethral stricture in men are characterized by the appearance of a weak urine stream during urination. Sometimes pain may appear during urination or sexual arousal. Attachment of infection through the superficial urinary fistula with urethral stricture or the spread of infection from the lumen of the spontaneous urinary tract in the proximal direction leads to the appearance of symptoms of prostatitis, epididymitis, vesicoureteral reflux of pyelonephritis.
Complications of urethral stricture in men
Infection and ischemia of tissues in the stricture zone play a key role in the development of local complications. These include:
- fistulas urethral;
- paraurethral abscesses and phlegmon;
- Strokes of the supraventricular urethra;
- dermatitis and cellulitis.
Systemic complications include:
- acute and chronic infections of internal and external genital organs (bacterial prostatitis, bacterial vesiculitis, bacterial epididymitis);
- acute and chronic infections of the upper and lower urinary tract (pyelonephritis, pionephrosis, cystitis, "small" bladder, etc.);
- sepsis;
- vesicoureteral reflux, hydroureteronephrosis:
- urolithiasis (kidney stones, ureters, bladder, urethra);
- chronic renal failure;
- vascular erectile dysfunction;
- secondary hypogonadism:
- infertility.
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