ALLMedicine™ Urinary Tract Infections Center

Mar 28th, 2023 - Several infections, such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections (UTIs), as well as bloodstream, skin, and soft tissue infections, are caused by Acinetobacter baumannii, a nosocomial pathogen and Gram-negative coccobacillus. Due to its resistance t...

Mar 26th, 2023 - En bloc kidney transplantation (EBKT) is a technique used to transplant pediatric kidneys to adult recipients, but can lead to certain complications seldom found in single-kidney transplantation. We report a case of renal artery embolization after...

Mar 25th, 2023 - To synthesize existing evidence to evaluate the outcomes of different urinary catheter removal timing (early vs late) after urethroplasty. We performed a comprehensive search of PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, and Web of Science from incepti...

Mar 25th, 2023 - Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are predominantly caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli). There is rapid increase in antimicrobial resistance in UTIs, also declared as a serious health threat by World Health Organization (WHO). Present...

Mar 25th, 2023 - Nephrolithiasis as a feature of rheumatologic diseases is under recognized. Understanding presenting features, diagnostic testing is crucial to proper management. A 32 year old woman with a history of recurrent complicated nephrolithiasis presente...

Feb 1st, 2023 - Symptomatic uncomplicated urinary tract infections (uUTI) are one of the most common infections in the United States (US) [1]. They are defined by the presence of dysuria, urinary frequency, urgency, and suprapubic pain in women lacking fever and ...

Apr 6th, 2021 - Antimicrobial overuse is a major health care issue that contributes to antibiotic resistance. Such overuse includes unnecessarily long durations of antibiotic therapy in patients with common bacterial infections, such as acute bronchitis with chro...

Nov 7th, 2020 - Urinary tract infections (UTIs) in women are common, with an overall lifetime risk over >50%. UTIs are considered recurrent when they follow complete clinical resolution of a previous UTI and are usually defined as at least three episodes of infec...

May 2nd, 2019 - This document seeks to establish guidance for the evaluation and management of women with recurrent urinary tract infections (rUTI) to prevent inappropriate use of antibiotics, decrease the risk of antibiotic resistance, reduce adverse effects of ...

Aug 24th, 2017 - The evidence regarding an association between the nitrofuran and sulfonamide classes of antibiotics and birth defects is mixed. As with all patients, antibiotics should be prescribed for pregnant women only for appropriate indications and for the ...

Mar 14th, 2023 - This is a single-patient, phase I/II clinical trial that aims to evaluate the potential of bacteriophage therapy to treat and prevent the recurrence of a drug-resistant urinary tract infection. This study will follow a minimally invasive phage the...

Mar 9th, 2023 - UROPOT is a randomized, single-centre, double-blind, pilot trial comparing a combination of aminoglycosides and mannitol to standard of care or aminoglycosides alone for the peri-operative antimicrobial prophylaxis of endourological procedures wit...

Mar 8th, 2023 - This study is set up by an international core group consisting of infectious disease specialists, geriatricians, urologists, microbiologists, emergency physicians and primary care physicians to develop a consensus-based research definition of urin...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Postoperative urinary retention has been defined as the inability to void despite having fluid in the bladder during the postoperative period. Urinary retention after pelvic reconstructive surgery requiring indwelling catheter or self-catheterizat...

Mar 7th, 2023 - Infections constitute a multiple and heterogeneous set of pathologies, and the first cause of mortality worldwide. Among them, sepsis is a more recent nosological entity, including the most severe forms of acute infectious pathologies, its frequen...

Mar 24th, 2023 - Note that some links may require subscriptions. At FDA's request, Ascend Laboratories has voluntarily recalled certain lots of the blood thinner dabigatran because of possible contamination with a nitrosamine. Eighty-hour work weeks and dirty call...

Feb 20th, 2023 - Maternal genitourinary tract infections during pregnancy were linked to the development of leukemia in offspring, a Danish nationwide study found. Children born to a mother who experienced any kind of infection during pregnancy had increased risk ...

Feb 1st, 2023 - Symptomatic uncomplicated urinary tract infections (uUTI) are one of the most common infections in the United States (US) [1]. They are defined by the presence of dysuria, urinary frequency, urgency, and suprapubic pain in women lacking fever and ...

Jan 13th, 2023 - Vancomycin is a commonly used glycopeptide antibiotic used to treat infections caused by gram-positive organisms. Vancomycin is most often used as a parenteral agent for empiric or definitive treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureu.

Dec 27th, 2022 - Earlier this year, empagliflozin (Jardiance) won FDA approval for a broader indication in heart failure across the spectrum of ejection fraction. As part of our review of the year's top stories, we follow up on what has happened since this approva...