The Optilume device includes a balloon coated with paclitaxel. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Optilume ® Urethral Drug Coated Balloon (DCB) to treat patients with obstructive ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Treating male urethral stricture with the patient’s own buccal mucosal cells, encapsulated in a polymer scaffold as carrier, has been granted a patent in Japan. A longer ...

Urethral strictures refer to the narrowing of the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine out of the body. This condition is typically caused by scarring, which can block or narrow the urethra, ...

STRICTURES of the human urethra are of three types: inflammatory, traumatic and congenital. The basic histology 1 common to all strictures is a proliferation of fibroblasts in the tunica propria. This ...

A novel and relatively pain-less treatment method for male urethral stricture using patients own buccal mucosal cells has been reported as successful in four out of six patients. The study has been ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A novel and relatively pain-less treatment method for male urethral stricture using patients own buccal mucosal cells has been reported as successful in four out of six ...

Synchronous metastatic disease is characterized by the presence of metastatic lesions, in addition to the primary tumor, at diagnosis. Investigators in South Korea demonstrated the benefit in a ...

A 20-year-old man underwent HSCT from a matched unrelated donor for AML. Conditioning consisted of BU (800 mg), CY (6.2 gm) and rabbit antithymocyte globulin (325 mg). GVHD prophylaxis included ...

Although ureteric injury is relatively uncommon, it is a serious event that can result in intra-abdominal sepsis, renal failure, and loss of the ipsilateral renal unit. Most injuries are iatrogenic ...