Complication: Difference between revisions

In medicine, a complication is the undesired development or the unexpectedly difficult course of a disease, trauma or therapy. Complications are therefore secondary events.

* bleeding complications (e.g. with anticoagulation);

* dysregulation (e.g. shock);

In a recently published meta-study, Iacob et al. (2021) defined 47 classes of complications arising from male circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal

# Extensive penile skin defects/avulsion

# Infection (minor and major)

# Penile herpes simplex virus type 1 infection (after Jewish ritual circumcision)

# Necrosis

# Complete penile amputation

# Penile haematoma

# [[Bleeding]] in the context of a genetic condition:haemophilia, sickle cell trait and factor VII deficiency

# Oedema

# Keloids

# Haemorrhage/bleeding (outside of a genetic deficiency)

# Nonhealing wound

# Preputial stenosis

# Cicatrix

# Meatitis

# Trapped/buried/concealed/inconspicuous penis

# Urethrocutaneous fistula

# Iatrogenic [[hypospadias]]

# Intraperitoneal bladder perforation (leading to life-threatening renal failure)

# [[Death]] (from bleeding or infection)

# Unsatisfactory cosmetic results including uncircumcised appearance

# Device displacement

# Early sloughing of foreskin tissue

# Long foreskin obstructing urine flow

# Insufficient foreskin removal/redundant foreskin

# (Acute) Ischaemia (which can lead to necrosis)

# Fournier’s gangrene

# Penile mycosis leading to penile gangrene

# Glandular adhesion (of remnant foreskin)

# Implantation dermoid/epidermal inclusion cysts/penile implantation cyst

# Myiasis (fly infestation)

# Denuded penis

# Chordee

# Suture sinus tracts

# Lower clinical neurophysiological elicitability of thepenilo-cavernosus reflex

# Sexual dysfunction

# Traumatic neuroma

# Decreased urine output

# Excessive skin removal

# Injury to urethra

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