What are the dangers of male hypospadias?

There are many reasons for male hypospadias. First of all, we need to consider environmental factors. This situation is prone to occur in infants and young children. Secondly, it is caused by endocrine factors. For example, pituitary abnormalities can lead to abnormal gonadal axis, which can lead to urethral fissures. In addition, there are many factors including chromosomal abnormalities and gene mutations. So what are the dangers of male hypospadias?

The hazards of male hypospadias:

Hypospadias is also a common genital malformation in men. However, male patients with hypospadias often find it difficult to understand under what circumstances hypospadias occurs. They do not fully understand the symptoms of hypospadias, which often causes men to miss the most appropriate time for treatment, causing great harm to their health.

Clinical manifestations of hypospadias

1. Newborns and infants have almost no symptoms. Adolescents and adults often complain of tortuous urine stream, spray-like urine, and obstruction bending toward the abdomen, which may affect the normal sexual life of men. Perineal type and penis scrotal type need to squat to urinate, and often cause infertility.

2. Ectopic urethral opening: The urethral opening can appear in any part from the proximal end of the normal urethral opening to the perineal urethra. Some urethral openings are narrow, and the distal end is the urethral plate.

3. Penile curvature: The penis bends toward the abdomen. Hypospadias is less common with relatively clear penile curvature, and most cases are mild. Penile curvature is divided into mild and severe according to the angle between the glans penis and the longitudinal axis of the penis. The latter two cases will cause difficulty in sexual intercourse in adulthood.

4. Abnormal distribution of foreskin: the foreskin on the ventral side of the glans penis fails to fuse in the midline, so it is a V-shaped defect, the frenulum of the foreskin is missing, and the entire foreskin is transferred to the dorsal side of the glans penis and accumulates in a cap-shaped manner.

If a man has the above symptoms, he is very likely to have hypospadias. At this time, male patients need to keep a clear mind and go to a regular hospital for a thorough examination. However, many male patients said that they are still vague about hypospadias, because there are different types of hypospadias, and they don’t know which type of hypospadias they have. Then male friends can take a good look at the following content to understand what types of hypospadias there are, so as to distinguish the characteristics of different types of hypospadias.

Common Types of Hypospadias

1. Glans type or coronal groove type hypospadias; the urethral opening is in the center of the ventral side of the coronal groove. Except for the narrow urethral opening, this type generally does not affect urination and sexual intercourse functions and can be treated without surgery. However, the deformed urethra will affect the quality of sexual life. Therefore, urethroplasty is recommended to move the external urethral opening forward to a normal position through surgery.

2. Penile hypospadias: The external urethral opening opens on the ventral side of the penis.

3. Penis-scrotal hypospadias: The urethra opens at the junction of the scrotum and penis, and the penis is severely curved.

4. Scrotal hypospadias: The external urethral opening is located in the scrotum. In addition to the general characteristics of hypospadias, the scrotum is poorly developed and may have varying degrees of fissures, and sometimes there are no testicles inside.

5. Perineal hypospadias: The external urethral opening is located in the perineum, the external genitalia is poorly developed, the penis is short and severely decurved, the scrotum is bifurcated, and it looks like the female vulva, which can easily cause misunderstanding.