PURPOSE: Despite preoperative screening and treatment for urinary tract infections, a postoperative urinary tract infection develops in approximately 1 in 5 urogynecologic patients.
BACKGROUND: Lengthier antimicrobial therapy is associated with increased costs, antimicrobial resistance, and adverse drug events.
BACKGROUND: Diagnostic urinary tract infection (UTI) studies have primarily been performed among female patients.
Aim of this paper is to report a systematic review of the literature about the incidence and putative mechanisms of genital tract injuries following open and laparoscopic herniorraphy and their effects on sexual function and fertility and to point out the measures of prevention and of treatment.
BACKGROUND: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common childhood infection in the Tropics which causes significant illness and is frequently missed, probably because of its non-specific presentation and similarity with other common illnesses.
SAVANNAH, GA USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Linda Yoder began the lecture by noting that her co-presenter, LTC Nancy Steele, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, Chief, Center for Nurse Science and Clinical Inquiry, Womack Army Medical Center, FT Bragg, NC was not present but the presentation was based on Dr. Steele’s research on voiding habits of female soldiers.
Urinary tract infections are a real public health problem.
Actinobaculum schaalii is considered to be a part of the normai flora in the genital and urinary tract area.
OBJECTIVES: To determine if voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG) following first episode of urinary tract infection (UTI) offers any incremental diagnostic advantage in boys if a comprehensive renal and bladder ultrasonogram (RBUS) revealed no abnormalities.
OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the influence of different urination methods on the urinary systems of patients with spinal cord injury.
Management of urinary tract infections (UTI) in children is at a crossroads both in regard to the diagnostic methods used, the need to detect vesico-ureteral reflux, the benefit of prophylactic antibiotics and the emergence strains of multiresistant E. coli.
The aim of the prevention of recurrent urinary tract infections in children is to reduce renal scarring, that is associated with hypertension or end-stage renal failure decades latter.
Urinary tract infections is one of the most common bacterial infections in pediatrics.
The diagnosis of febrile urinary tract infection in young children is difficult.
PURPOSE: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common in infant males who are uncircumcised and can lead to renal parenchymal disease of the still-growing pediatric kidney.
Objectives: Tuberculosis of the prostate is a very rare disease. Most urologists are not familiar with it. Here, we wish to present our experience with 4 cases of this disease and a review of literature.
BACKGROUND: Few studies examined the relationship between obesity and urinary tract infection (UTI), showing inconsistent results.
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Urinary tract infection is the most common healthcare-acquired infection in the world, accounting for ∼ 40% of all nosocomial infections.
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common serious bacterial infection in childhood.
BACKGROUND: The incidence of urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by extended-spectrum-beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (ESBL-KP) has been on the rise limiting oral treatment options.
