Kashif J. Piracha, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine and nephrology physician with experience treating patients in acute care hospitals and rehabilitation facilities. The urethra is a tube ...

Introduction Haemodialysis patients with central venous catheter (HD-CVC) are at increased risk of exit site infections (ESIs) and catheter-related bloodstream infections, causing an increase of ...

Jennifer Whitlock, RN, MSN, FNP-C, is a board-certified family nurse practitioner. She has experience in primary care and hospital medicine. Urethral strictures make it hard to urinate and can cause ...

A penile fracture usually occurs when an erect penis experiences blunt force, trauma, or bending. It’s a medical emergency, but prompt surgery can typically help prevent complications. A penile ...

New guidelines emphasize evidence-based management of genitourinary injuries, involving multidisciplinary input from experts in urology, trauma surgery, and military medicine. Recommendations include ...

Urethral stricture is scarring in the urethra, the tube that moves urine out of your body. The scarring blocks or narrows your urethra and makes it difficult to urinate. It can cause pain. If left ...

1 Urology Department, Hospital Sultan Idris Shah, Kajang, Malaysia. 2 Department of Surgery, IMU University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Surgical intervention is the cornerstone of definitive management ...

In each of four female infants in whom an extreme degree of virilization during fetal development resulted from the adrenocortical-hyperplasia syndrome the urethra extended to the tip of the phallus.

A 29-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because he did not ejaculate semen during orgasm. Eight years earlier, he had sustained a pelvic fracture, which was treated conservatively. Following ...

The following is a summary of “Retrospective analysis of urethral anastomosis with ancillary maneuvers and intraoperative biaxial defect measurements to achieve a tension-free guidance system for redo ...