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| Question: | My four year old son has had a successful operation for hypospadias. Will this problem now affect him in his relationships with women in later life? |
| Answer: | Hypospadias is a developmental abnormality in which the tube carrying the urine through the penis (the urethra) fails to close properly in the foetus, and the opening is on the lower side of the penis rather than the end. The opening can occur anywhere from the base of the penis to very near the end, depending on the severity of the abnormality.
Boys with hypospadias are more likely to develop urinary infections, must pass urine sitting down, and later in life when they have sex, will ejaculate through this same opening in a place that makes it difficulr for the woman to fall pregnant.
The operation to correcr this abnormality and place the urethral opening in the usual position at the end of the penis, requires considerable skill, but is completely successful in the vast majority of patients. Your son' s future sex life should be completely normal.
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