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REPLY TO THE AUTHORS: Re: The effect of urethroplasty surgery on erectile and orgasmic functions: a prospective study

To the editor,

We would like to thank the author of the letter to the editor for her or his correct point that the lack of validated questionnaires specific in the field of urethral stricture and urethroplasty (11. Floyd MS Jr, Omar AM, Baird AD, Anderson PCB. Re: The effect of urethroplasty surgery on erectile and orgasmic functions: a prospective study. Int Braz J Urol. 2019;45. [Epub ahead of print]). Today, many questionnaires available to put towards the diagnosis of erectile dysfunction and evaluate the success of treatment. International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF), was first used in the clinical study of sildenafil and is now the most commonly used assessment questionnaire in the evaluation of erectile dysfunction with subsequent validations (22. Rosen RC, Cappelleri JC, Gendrano N 3rd. The International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF): a state-of-the-science review. Int J Impot Res. 2002;14:226-44.). However, the IIEF evaluation provides minimal information about the ejaculatory and orgasmic function of patients (33. Rosen RC, Catania J, Pollack L, Althof S, O’Leary M, Seftel AD. Male Sexual Health Questionnaire (MSHQ): scale development and psychometric validation. Urology. 2004;64:777-82.). Besides, validation studies on questionnaires for assessing erectile and ejaculatory functions are ongoing, even by country and language (44. Rosen RC, Catania JA, Althof SE, Pollack LM, O’Leary M, Seftel AD, et al. Development and validation of four-item version of Male Sexual Health Questionnaire to assess ejaculatory dysfunction. Urology. 2007;69:805-9.

5. Reis AL, Reis LO, Saade RD, Santos CA Jr, Lima ML, Fregonesi A. Validation of Portuguese version of Quality of Erection Questionnaire (QEQ) and comparison to International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) and RAND 36-Item Health Survey. Int Braz J Urol. 2015;41:155-67.
-66. Gutiérrez P, Hernández P, Sanz E, Cardeñosa O, Mas M. Further psychometric validation of the sexual life quality questionnaire for men with erectile dysfunction and their partners on a modified Spanish language version. J Sex Med. 2009;6:2698-706.).

Sangkum et al. have reported that most patients with urethral stricture complained of sexual dysfunction, especially about reduced ejaculatory fluid (85%) and after urethroplasty, no one reported a worsening erection; and many of them reported that there was a significant improvement in erection, ejaculation, relationship with their partner, sexual activity and desire (77. Erickson BA, Wysock JS, McVary KT, Gonzalez CM. Erectile function, sexual drive, and ejaculatory function after reconstructive surgery for anterior urethral stricture disease. BJU Int. 2007;99:607-11.). Also, Erickson et al., have found that urethral reconstructive surgery affects ejaculatory functions positively while not significantly affecting erectile function or sexual dysfunction (88. Sangkum P, Levy J, Yafi FA, Hellstrom WJ. Erectile dysfunction in urethral stricture and pelvic fracture urethral injury patients: diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes. Andrology. 2015;3:443-9.). Since we did not have a validated questionnaire in patients with urethral stricture, we used the IIEF questionnaire, which is the most widely used validated test in the world. Recently, case- based or diseased- based questionnaires have been increasingly used. Accordingly, there are studies related to special questionnaires for patients with urethral stricture (99. Önol FF, Bindayi A, Tahra A, Basibuyuk I, Onol SY. Turkish validation of the urethral stricture surgery specific patient-reported outcome measure (USS-PROM) with supplemental assessment of erectile function and morbidity due to oral graft harvesting. Neurourol Urodyn. 2017; 36:2089-95., 1010. Kluth LA, Dahlem R, Becker A, Schmid M, Soave A, Rosenbaum C, et al.Psychometric validation of a German language version of a PROM for urethral stricture surgery and preliminary testing of supplementary ED and UI constructs. World J Urol. 2016; 34:369-75.). But these are not validated. As stated by the author of the letter to the editor, studies in this field should continue to better investigate the effect of urethral stricture and urethroplasty surgery on orgasmic and ejaculatory functions.

REFERENCES

  • 1
    Floyd MS Jr, Omar AM, Baird AD, Anderson PCB. Re: The effect of urethroplasty surgery on erectile and orgasmic functions: a prospective study. Int Braz J Urol. 2019;45. [Epub ahead of print]
  • 2
    Rosen RC, Cappelleri JC, Gendrano N 3rd. The International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF): a state-of-the-science review. Int J Impot Res. 2002;14:226-44.
  • 3
    Rosen RC, Catania J, Pollack L, Althof S, O’Leary M, Seftel AD. Male Sexual Health Questionnaire (MSHQ): scale development and psychometric validation. Urology. 2004;64:777-82.
  • 4
    Rosen RC, Catania JA, Althof SE, Pollack LM, O’Leary M, Seftel AD, et al. Development and validation of four-item version of Male Sexual Health Questionnaire to assess ejaculatory dysfunction. Urology. 2007;69:805-9.
  • 5
    Reis AL, Reis LO, Saade RD, Santos CA Jr, Lima ML, Fregonesi A. Validation of Portuguese version of Quality of Erection Questionnaire (QEQ) and comparison to International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) and RAND 36-Item Health Survey. Int Braz J Urol. 2015;41:155-67.
  • 6
    Gutiérrez P, Hernández P, Sanz E, Cardeñosa O, Mas M. Further psychometric validation of the sexual life quality questionnaire for men with erectile dysfunction and their partners on a modified Spanish language version. J Sex Med. 2009;6:2698-706.
  • 7
    Erickson BA, Wysock JS, McVary KT, Gonzalez CM. Erectile function, sexual drive, and ejaculatory function after reconstructive surgery for anterior urethral stricture disease. BJU Int. 2007;99:607-11.
  • 8
    Sangkum P, Levy J, Yafi FA, Hellstrom WJ. Erectile dysfunction in urethral stricture and pelvic fracture urethral injury patients: diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes. Andrology. 2015;3:443-9.
  • 9
    Önol FF, Bindayi A, Tahra A, Basibuyuk I, Onol SY. Turkish validation of the urethral stricture surgery specific patient-reported outcome measure (USS-PROM) with supplemental assessment of erectile function and morbidity due to oral graft harvesting. Neurourol Urodyn. 2017; 36:2089-95.
  • 10
    Kluth LA, Dahlem R, Becker A, Schmid M, Soave A, Rosenbaum C, et al.Psychometric validation of a German language version of a PROM for urethral stricture surgery and preliminary testing of supplementary ED and UI constructs. World J Urol. 2016; 34:369-75.

Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    27 May 2019
  • Date of issue
    2019

History

  • Received
    20 Nov 2018
  • Accepted
    30 Dec 2018
  • Published
    10 Feb 2019
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