“Posterior Urethroplasty”
Dr. Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Prof. of Urology, Senior Consultant, Vedenayagam Hospital, Combiatore, India
This lecture will focus on posterior urethral trauma following a pelvic fracture. A brief outline of the current approach to the immediate management and the subsequent corrective procedures will be given. The lecture will also be dealing with the problem of complex posterior urethral strictures as a result of both the trauma and following initial failed corrective surgery and the methods by which these defects may be corrected. How the complications arising out of the trauma namely incontinence, impotence and infertility can be treated after successful correction of the urethral injury?