The effect of urethral stricture on male fertility in Ife

Twenty patients with Urethral stricture disease presenting with difficulty in micturition, azoospermia, and oligospermia were studied. Only 5% of our patients could firmly claim to be fertile at the time of presentation with a rise to 80% fertility rate at the end of management. Fifteen percent did not notice any change in their status. Surgical approach claimed better result over conservative management because of other complications following gonococcal infections. The need for a close forensic analysis in the determination of paternity in all cases of Urethral strictures was stressed while a treatment protocol of graft urethroplasty in all cases of traumatic rupture and dilatation in cases following inflammatory lesions of the urethra was established.