Research Explained: Urethral Complications After Transgender Phalloplasty

Dr. Santucci discusses “Urethral Complications After Transgender Phalloplasty”.
Radial Forearm Free Flap Phalloplasty is associated with a rate of urethral stricture as high as 51%, which falls only to 23-35% even among the most experienced contemporary surgeons. In cases of urethral stricture, Urethroplasty is required in 94-96% of patients. Surgery should be delayed until all acute inflammation has subsided. Urethroplasty is technically challenging and fails in up to 50% of cases. Repeated surgery or salvage urethral exteriorization procedures, which can leave the patient with lifelong perineal urethrostomy, are often required. Patient and physician knowledge regarding the high burden and poor treatment options for urethral stricture after phalloplasty is incomplete, and patient acceptance of this reality is crucial for honest understanding of the potential complications of this increasingly common but extremely complex surgery.
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[@TaranTucker]

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[@Spoiiiidormon]

And use buccal mucosa to replica the tip of the head because it got the similar sensation to head of the penis?

[@Spoiiiidormon]

Can we use silicone made tubes for a urethra body like males have? Like a surgery silicone grade urethra tube body soft and bendable. Slip it between skin and muscle to replica a cis looking penis and position the penile implants while surgery and not wait for the phallus to heal. Let them heal with implants already positioned.