Table 1.
Univariate analysis for factors associated with failure after DVIU for short bulbar urethral strictures.
| Variable | Failure⁎ |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | ||
| Mean (SD) | |||
| Age, years, | 48.4 (15.6) | 53 (14) | 0.002 |
| Haemoglobin, g/dL | 13.8 (1.6) | 13.4 (1.6) | 0.05 |
| N (%) | |||
| Presentation | 0.03 | ||
| LUTS | 181 (61.1) | 115 (38.9) | |
| Urinary retention | 26 (63.4) | 15 (36.6) | |
| Incidental | 43 (46.2) | 50 (53.8) | |
| Diabetes mellitus | 0.9 | ||
| No | 226 (58.1) | 163 (41.9) | |
| Yes | 24 (58.5) | 17 (41.5) | |
| Hypertension | 0.6 | ||
| No | 210 (58.7) | 148 (41.3) | |
| Yes | 40 (55.6) | 32 (44.4) | |
| Stricture cause | 0.004 | ||
| Inflammatory | 22 (81.5) | 5 (18.5) | |
| Iatrogenic | 70 (61.9) | 34 (38.1) | |
| Traumatic | 45 (66.2) | 23 (33.8) | |
| Idiopathic | 113 (50.9) | 109 (49.1) | |
| Obesity (BMI > 30 kg/m2) | 0.001 | ||
| No | 154 (65.3) | 82 (34.7) | |
| Yes | 96 (49.5) | 98 (50.5) | |
| Urine culture | 0.1 | ||
| Negative | 176 (55.9) | 139 (44.1) | |
| Positive | 74 (64.3) | 41 (35.7) | |
| Stricture site | 0.017 | ||
| Bulbo-membranous | 100 (65.8) | 52 (34.2) | |
| Distal bulbar | 150 (54) | 128 (46) | |
⁎
Failure includes RSD and/or operative intervention.