UNLABELLED Surgical wound infection is a serious and potentially catastrophic complication after joint arthroplasty. Urinary tract infection is a common infection that creates a potential reservoir of resistant pathogens and increases patient morbidity. We asked whether treated preoperative and postoperative urinary tract infections are risk factors for deep joint infection. We examined the med...

Nosocomial urinary tract infection, a common complication in surgical patients, is primarily related to the use of indwelling urinary catheters. Discontinuation of catheter usage within 2 days, whenever possible, is the cornerstone to avoiding these infections. Patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria may be treated with catheter removal only, and do not necessarily require antibiotic therapy. Pa...

Urinary tract infections (UTI) are one of the most common and most intensively studied infections encountered in clinical practice. It is, however, an area where significant confusion has existed in agreeing the criteria for diagnosis, the natural history of disease, and the treatment. In the present paper etiology and risk factors for uncomplicated UTI, treatment of UTI, estrogen in UTI treatm...

The comprehensive retrospective and prospective data on nosocomial infection at the Al-Hada, Rehab and Prince Sultan Military Hospitals pointed to approximately one-third nosocomial episodes belonging to the urinary tract.1 That indeed is in accordance with the reported 40% contribution by urinary infections towards the nosocomial infections.2 Urinary tract infections have been responsible for ...

Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are common in every day pediatric practice. During the first 6 years of life, circa 6 to 7% of girls and 2.5% of boys will develop a UTI. UTI fall into two categories: non febrile lower UTI or cystitis and febrile upper UTI or pyelonephritis. The latter is considered by many to be the most common serious bacterial illness in children [1]. If UTI is suspected, uri...

Over two years, 9892 mid-stream urine samples from patients attending the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi were cultured. Significant bacterial growth was seen in 23.5% samples. Further identification of these organisms Eevealed 40% of E.coli, 16% Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 11% Klebsiella aerogenes, 5.0% Enterobacter sp., 13% Protdus sp., 4.0% Serratia liquifaciens, 1.0% Acinetobacter sp., 3....

UTI may be Symptomatic or Asymptomatic (colonisation without symptoms or signs of infection), Uncomplicated where the urinary tract is structurally and neurologically normal, invading organisms will be high grade uropathogens, usually grown in pure culture and not very antibiotic resistant or Complicated where the urinary tract is structurally or neurologically abnormal, hence lower degree path...

Copyright © 2012 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 30-year-old woman calls you to report a 2-day history of worsening dysuria and urinary urgency and frequency. She reports having no fever, chills, back pain, or vaginal irritation or discharge. One month ago, you treated her with a 3-day course of trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole for presumptive cystitis, and her symptoms resolved. She is otherwise...