Epidemiology of male urethral strictures in Pakistan Authors Syed Saeed Abidi Department of Urology, Sindh Institute of Urology Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan Tanzeel Gazder Department of Urology, Sindh Institute of Urology Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan Manzoor Hussain Department of Urology, Sindh Institute of Urology Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan Syed Rabiullah Department of Urology, Sindh Institute of Urology Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan Mazahir Zulfiqar Department of Urology, Sindh Institute of Urology Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan Syed Adibul Hasan Rizvi Department of Urology, Sindh Institute of Urology Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan DOI: https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.7925 Keywords: Male, Urethral structure, Epidemiology Abstract Urethral stricture disease is relatively common in Pakistan, constituting 4-5% of the urological workload. Despite the high prevalence, little is known about its epidemiology in the country. The current narrative review comprised search on PubMed, Pak MediNet and Google Scholar databases for studies done in Pakistan and published between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2021. The search yielded 30 local publications on stricture urethra. Demographic data as well as causes and management pattern of male urethral stricture were noted and analysed. There were 5,021 patients, with 3850 (76.6%) being from the province of Sindh. The disease was in majority impact younger patients aged up to 40 years n=1572, while after the age of 60 years, 248 (9%) patients had the disease. The common cause was trauma due to road traffic accidents in both anterior and posterior strictures compared to idiopathic cause reported in the West. ---Continue Author Biographies Tanzeel Gazder, Department of Urology, Sindh Institute of Urology Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan Assistant professor of urology Manzoor Hussain, Department of Urology, Sindh Institute of Urology Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan Professor of urology Syed Rabiullah, Department of Urology, Sindh Institute of Urology Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan Assistant professor urology Mazahir Zulfiqar, Department of Urology, Sindh Institute of Urology Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan Assistant professor Urology Syed Adibul Hasan Rizvi, Department of Urology, Sindh Institute of Urology Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan Professor n director sindh institute of Urology and transplantation Downloads Full Text Article Published 2023-09-13 How to Cite Abidi, S. S., Gazder, T., Manzoor Hussain, Syed Rabiullah, Mazahir Zulfiqar, & Rizvi, S. A. H. (2023). Epidemiology of male urethral strictures in Pakistan. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 73(10), 2054–2058. https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.7925 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 73 No. 10 (2023): OCTOBER Section REVIEW ARTICLE License Copyright (c) 2023 Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.