Table 1.
Demographics by preoperative and postoperative urgency symptoms for anterior strictures
| Preop | Postop | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | No Urgency | Urgency | p Value | No Urgency | Urgency | p Value | |
| No. pts | 439 | 185 | 254 | _ | 262 | 177 | — |
| Mean ± SD followup (mos) | 15.3 ± 15.6 | 15.2 ± 16.4 | 15.3 ± 14.9 | 0.95 | 14.4 ± 15.9 | 17.3 ± 14.9 | 0.12 |
| Mean ± SD age | 45.0 ± 16.0 | 44.5 ± 16.0 | 45.4 ± 15.9 | 0.56 | 43.9 ± 15.6 | 46.7 ± 16.3 | 0.07 |
| Mean ± SD BMI (kg/m2) | 30.0 ± 6.8 | 29.6 ± 5.9 | 30.3 ± 7.3 | 0.27 | 29.7 ± 6.2 | 30.3 ± 7.5 | 0.33 |
| Mean ± SD stricture length (cm) | 3.5 ± 2.5 | 3.2 ± 1.8 | 3.7 ± 2.9 | 0.05 | 3.3 ± 2.4 | 3.7 ± 2.8 | 0.06 |
| No. stricture location (%): | |||||||
| Penile | 35 (8.0) | 15 (8.1) | 20 (7.9) | 0.06 | 20 (7.6) | 15 (8.5) | 0.19 |
| Bulbar | 357 (81.3) | 159 (86.0) | 198 (78.0) | <0.01 | 222 (84.7) | 135 (76.3) | 0.01 |
| Penobulbar | 47 (10.7) | 11 (6.0) | 36 (14.2) | 0.99 | 20 (7.6) | 27 (15.3) | 0.99 |
| No. urethroplasty type (%): | |||||||
| Buccal | 147 (34.0) | 70 (38.3) | 77 (30.8) | 0.01 | 82 (31.5) | 65 (37.6) | 0.45 |
| Augmented | 34 (7.9) | 13 (7.1) | 21 (8.4) | 0.14 | 19 (7.3) | 15 (8.7) | 0.55 |
| Excision + primary anastomosis | 213 (49.2) | 87 (47.5) | 126 (50.4) | 0.05 | 136 (52.3) | 77 (44.5) | 0.13 |
| Penile fasciocutaneous flap | 14 (3.2) | 8 (4.4) | 6 (2.4) | 0.02 | 11 (4.2) | 3 (1.7) | 0.06 |
| Perineal urethrostomy | 25 (5.8) | 5 (2.7) | 20 (8.0) | 0.99 | 12 (4.6) | 13 (7.5) | 0.99 |
| Combined approach | 6 (1.4) | 2 (1.1) | 4 (1.6) | 0.46 | 2 (0.8) | 4 (2.3) | 0.12 |
| No. recurrence (%) | 31 (7.1) | 9 (4.9) | 22 (8.7) | 0.14 | 12 (4.6) | 19 (10.7) | 0.01 |
Patients were asked how often they experienced sudden strong desire to urinate that was difficult to postpone, which was graded on Likert scale, including 0—never, 1—rarely, 2—sometimes, 3—often using CLSS, and how often they found it difficult to postpone urination, which was graded on Likert scale, including 0—not at all, 1—less than 1 in 5 times, 2—less than half time, 3—about half time, 4—more than half time and 5—almost always using AUA-SI with AUA-SI score 0 correlating to CLSS score 0, 1 correlating to 1, 2 or 3 correlating to 2 and 4 or 5 correlating to 3, respectively, and with no urgency scored as CLSS 0 or 1 and urgency scored as CLSS 1 or 2.