The most complete treatment for urethral stricture is surgery. However, the treatment needs to be based on the specific condition. Urethral strictures are mainly caused by infection, trauma, and congenital factors, and the best treatment varies from case to case, including anti-inflammatory treatment, urethral dilatation, endourethral incision, and stent placement. Complex urethral strictures require urethroplasty.
1. Anti-inflammatory treatment: just because the urethra is edematous due to inflammation of the urinary tract, urethral stenosis, you can follow the doctor’s instructions to apply medication anti-inflammatory treatment, commonly used drugs such as levofloxacin, cefixime and so on.
2. Urethral dilatation: urethral stricture caused by local adhesion, you can choose to do urethral dilatation to deal with the expansion of physical therapy (deep heat therapy, etc.), part of the relief can be obtained.
3. Urethrotomy: Strictures caused by congenital developmental abnormalities or acquired scar formation can be relieved by urethrotomy.
4. Stenting: Patients with significant urethral stricture and physical condition that cannot tolerate surgery can opt for stenting, which can achieve good results.
5. Urethroplasty: For complicated urethral stricture, urethroplasty is needed, such as penile flap urethroplasty, oral mucosal urethroplasty and so on.
Apparent urethral stenosis, accompanied by obvious symptoms of urinary tract obstruction, causing lower abdominal swelling and discomfort, should be timely medical examination, standardized treatment under the guidance of clinicians, drugs should be applied under the guidance of doctors.