Table 2 Comparison between Patients’ demographic and the clinicopathological features of the urethral stricture among the study groups
Group I | Group II | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
Age (years) | 38.4 ± 15 | 39.3 ± 13.1 | 0.65 |
BMI | 23.1 ± 3.9 | 23.6 ± 3.5 | 0.32 |
Smoking, n (%) | 21 (26.9%) | 37 (22.2%) | 0.41 |
DM, n (%) | 10 (12.8%) | 16 (9.6%) | 0.44 |
HTN, n (%) | 6 (7.7%) | 15 (8.9%) | 0.74 |
Previous urethroplasty, n (%) | 14 (17.9%) | 16 (9.6%) | 0.63 |
Urethral stricture Etiology, n (%) | 0.02 | ||
Traumatic Iatrogenic Idiopathic Inflammatory | 37 (50%) 15 (20.3%) 17 (22.9%) 5 (6.8%) | 42 (24.6%) 59 (34.5%) 45 (26.3%) 25 (14.6%) | |
Preoperative IPSS | 27.5 ± 6.4 | 25.8 ± 4.8 | 0.02 |
Preoperative Q-max | 2.5 ± 2.4 | 4.4 ± 2.8 | < 0.001 |
Stricture length (cm) | 3.4 ± 1.8 | 4.7 ± 1.4 | < 0.001 |