Increasing utilization of urethroplasty for male urethral stricture disease: analysis of in-hospital interventions in Germany from 2006 to 2023.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

There is a wide range of surgical treatments for urethral strictures. There is no information on the extent to which these procedures have been used over the past few years.

Methods

We analyzed data from Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) billing data from DESTATIS. Linear regression models were utilized for the analysis of trends over time.

Results

A significant decrease of male urethral stricture cases during the study period was observed. Cases decreased from 48,020 cases in 2006 to 33,062 cases in 2023, i.e. -31%. This decline was mainly driven by the decrease in cases in the younger age group (≤ 79 years), whereas a significant increase was noted in octogenarians (+ 24%). A total of 834,476 procedures for urethral stricture disease were analyzed. In accordanc

SUBMITTER: Herout R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12504392 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature