ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2025
Off-label use of drug-coated balloon (Optilume™) for urethral stricture in a 16-year-old boy: the FIRST pediatric case report.
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Abstract
Urethral strictures that are not related to urological procedures or severe urethral trauma are rare in the pediatric population. Potential etiological factors include bladder catheterization during advanced surgical procedures and in intensive care units. We present the first reported off-label, minimally invasive treatment of a long-segment anterior urethral stricture in a teenager following cardiac surgery, using a paclitaxel-coated balloon (Optilume™). During the diagnosis of urethral stricture, cystoscopy and urethral biopsy were performed, which ruled out balanitis xerotica obliterans on histopathological examination. After mechanical dilation of the urethra to 18Fr over a period of two months, restenosis was observed, confirmed by uroflowmetry, with a
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