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Ramon Virasoro

Ramon Virasoro

🇺🇸 United States
▶ Videos (9)
Mentored by · fellowship 2007
Gerald H. Jordan

Training and career​

  • Current position Visiting adjoint professor of urology, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine1
  • Medical school University of Buenos Aires2
  • Residency General surgery and urology, CEMIC, Buenos Aires2
  • Fellowship Adult and pediatric genitourinary reconstructive surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, with Gerald Jordan (2007)32
  • Leadership Co-founder, genitourinary reconstructive surgery fellowship, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic2

Key Publications​

Virasoro's cited work addresses urethral stricture disease through vessel-sparing bulbar urethroplasty, fossa navicularis flap reconstruction, and treatment of lichen sclerosus. Several other cited papers report outcomes of drug-coated balloon treatment for recurrent urethral strictures in the ROBUST I and III studies.P4P5P6P7P8

  1. Virasoro R, Zuckerman JM, McCammon KA, et al. "International multi-institutional experience with the vessel-sparing technique to reconstruct the proximal bulbar urethra: mid-term results." World J Urol. 2015;33(12):2153–2157. doi

    Vessel-sparing bulbar urethroplasty outcomes (2015). Led a multicenter series assessing vessel-sparing excision and primary anastomosis for proximal bulbar urethral strictures.

    Cited on: Jordan Vessel-Sparing Excision and Primary Anastomosis
  2. Virasoro R, DeLong J, Mann R, et al. "A drug-coated balloon treatment for urethral stricture disease: Interim results from the ROBUST I study." CUAJ. 2020;14(6). doi

    ROBUST I drug-coated balloon study (2020). First-authored the initial ROBUST I clinical report of paclitaxel-coated balloon dilation for recurrent anterior urethral stricture.

  3. Elliott SP, Coutinho K, Robertson KJ, et al. "One-Year Results for the ROBUST III Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Optilume <sup>®</sup> Drug-Coated Balloon for Anterior Urethral Strictures." Journal of Urology. 2022;207(4):866–875. doi

    ROBUST III randomized trial (2022). Served as senior author on a randomized comparison of drug-coated balloon dilation and standard endoscopic treatment for recurrent anterior urethral stricture.

    Cited on: Drug-Coated Balloon Therapy
  4. Stewart L, McCammon K, Metro M, Virasoro R. SIU/ICUD Consultation on Urethral Strictures: Anterior urethra-lichen sclerosus. Urology. 2014;83(3 Suppl):S27–S30. doi
    Cited on: Male Urogenital Physical Examination · Urethroperineal Fistula · Lichen Sclerosus
  5. Srikanth P, DeLong J, Virasoro R, Elliott SP. "A drug-coated balloon treatment for urethral stricture disease: three-year results from the ROBUST III study." J Endourol. 2025.
    Cited on: Antimitotics and Antifibrotics · Drug-Coated Balloon Therapy — Optilume · Male Urethral Stricture
  6. Virasoro R, DeLong JM. Non-transecting bulbar urethroplasty is favored over transecting techniques. World J Urol. 2020;38(12):3013-3018. doi
    Cited on: Excision and Primary Anastomosis (EPA) · Jordan Vessel-Sparing Excision and Primary Anastomosis · Muscle-Sparing Urethroplasty
  7. Jordan GH, Eltahawy EA, Virasoro R. The technique of vessel sparing excision and primary anastomosis for proximal bulbous urethral reconstruction. J Urol. 2007;177(5):1799-802. doi
    Cited on: ANTA Urethroplasty (Augmented Non-Transected Anastomotic) · Excision and Primary Anastomosis (EPA) · Jordan Vessel-Sparing Excision and Primary Anastomosis
  8. DeLong J, Virasoro R, Pichardo M, et al. "Long-term outcomes of recurrent bulbar urethral stricture treatment with the Optilume drug-coated balloon: five-year results from the ROBUST I study." J Urol. 2025;213(1):90–98. doi
    Cited on: Drug-Coated Balloon Therapy — Optilume · Drug-Coated Balloon Therapy (Optilume) · Drug-Coated Balloon Therapy

Other Publications Cited on WARWIKI

7 additional publications with Ramon Virasoro as a listed author are cited on WARWIKI, ordered by the number of pages that cite them. Papers whose author list is shortened to "et al." before this name are not included.

  1. Delong J, Monn MF, Jordan G, Virasoro R. "Jordan Vessel-Sparing EPA Urethroplasty." In: Joshi PM, Aubé-Peterkin M, Kulkarni SB, Datar G, eds. Surgical Atlas of Urethroplasty. Springer; 2024:71–76. doi
    Cited on: Jordan Vessel-Sparing Excision and Primary Anastomosis
  2. Monn MF, DeLong JM, Virasoro R, Jordan GH. Reconstruction of Strictures of the Fossa Navicularis Using a Transverse Penile Skin Island Flap (Jordan Flap). In: Joshi PM, Aubé-Peterkin M, Kulkarni SB, Datar G, eds. Surgical Atlas of Urethroplasty. Springer; 2024:317-324.
    Cited on: Jordan Fasciocutaneous Ventral Penile / Preputial Island Flap
  3. Mann RA, Virasoro R, DeLong JM, et al. "A drug-coated balloon treatment for urethral stricture disease: two-year results from the ROBUST I study." Can Urol Assoc J. 2021;15(2):20–25. doi
    Cited on: Drug-Coated Balloon Therapy — Optilume
  4. Virasoro R, Jordan GH. Lichen sclerosus. In: Brandes SB, Morey AF, eds. Advanced Male Urethral and Genital Reconstructive Surgery. 2nd ed. Humana Press; 2014:37-49 (editorial comment by Steven B. Brandes, pp. 45-47). doi
    Cited on: Lichen Sclerosus
  5. Eltahawy E, Gur U, Virasoro R, Schlossberg SM, Jordan GH. "Management of recurrent anastomotic stenosis following radical prostatectomy using Holmium laser and steroid injection." BJU Int. 2008;102(7):796–798. doi
    Cited on: Intralesional Corticosteroids
  6. Eltahawy EA, Virasoro R, Schlossberg SM, McCammon KA, Jordan GH. Long-term followup for excision and primary anastomosis for anterior urethral strictures. J Urol. 2007;177(5):1803-6. doi
    Cited on: Excision and Primary Anastomosis (EPA)
  7. Virasoro R, Eltahawy EA, Jordan GH. Long-term follow-up for reconstruction of strictures of the fossa navicularis with a single technique. BJU Int. 2007;100(5):1143-1145. doi
    Cited on: Jordan Fasciocutaneous Ventral Penile / Preputial Island Flap

Footnotes​

  1. Ramon Virasoro, MD. University of Colorado. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  2. AUA 2022 Annual Meeting. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. vol_14_no_1_march.pdf. Accessed October 2026. ↩