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ArticleCureus2025

Optilume® Balloon Dilatation for Urethral Stricture Disease: An Institutional Review of Outcomes for Multiple Stricture Aetiologies and Characteristics.

Rustam Karanjia, Andrew Pineda-Turner, Isabella Watts, Danielle Whiting, Andrew Chetwood

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Outcomes of patients undergoing OptilumeWorld journal of urology · 2026
    Article
  2. Paclitaxel Drug-Coated Balloon (OptilumeMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Rustam KaranjiaUrology, Frimley Health National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, Frimley, GBR.
Andrew Pineda-TurnerUrology, Frimley Health National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, Frimley, GBR.
Isabella WattsPublic Health, Imperial College School of Public Health, London, GBR.
Danielle WhitingUrology, Frimley Health National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, Frimley, GBR.
Andrew ChetwoodUrology, Frimley Health National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, Frimley, GBR.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction Optilume

Indexed as

endo urologyoptilumeurethral stricture (us)urethra strictureurethroplasty

Identifiers

PMID41080262
PMCPMC12510791

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