Patient's reported outcome and reconstructive urethral surgery: a 'first toe in the water'.

摘要

Urethral strictures are a frequent source of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in men, but a systematic analysis on patients' quality of life (QpL) is rarely reported in the literature. The clinical history and follow-up thus far have been used to gain a summary view of the symptoms experienced by patients before the surgery and the impact of urethroplasty after urethral reconstruction. Urologists are familiar with several tools of measuring QpL in patients suffering from urinary incontinence (UI) or LUTS. They include voiding diaries and questionnaires and may represent the most important clinical review of the impact of symptoms and the benefit of treatment from a patient perspective [1].