Urethral stricture disease is one of the oldest described urologic pathologies
and urethroplasty is associated with high success rates. Many urethral strictures
are thought to arise from iatrogenic injury or radiation therapy which can create
ischemic insults to the urethra. In developed countries, most urethral strictures
are idiopathic; therefore, much is still unknown about the etiology and
pathogenesis of this disease. Testosterone is known to mediate vasculogenesis
through vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and hypoxia inducible
factor-1
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Department of Urology, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA 92868, USA
*Correspondence: dbarham@hs.uci.edu (David W. Barham)
J. Mens. Health 2022, 18(7), 159;
https://doi.org/10.31083/j.jomh1807159
Submitted: 11 February 2022 | Revised: 23 February 2022 | Accepted: 14 March 2022 | Published: 14 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers in Sexual Medicine and Men’s Health)
Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
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Keywords
urethral stricture
testosterone
testosterone deficiency
vasculogenesis