Elias Ayoub, Stessy Kutchukian, Pierre Bigot, Aurélien Dinh, Bastien Gondran-Tellier, Humphrey Robin, Marc Françot, Stéphane de Vergie, Jérôme Rigaud, Mathilde Chapuis, Laurent Brureau, Camille Jousseaume, Omar Karray, Fares T Kosseifi, Shahed Borojeni, Aurélien Descazeaud, Harrison-Junior Asare, Maxime Gaullier, Baptiste Poussot, Thibault Tricard, Michael Baboudjian, Éric Lechevallier, Pierre-Olivier Delpech, Héloïse Ducousso, Simon Bernardeau, Franck Bruyère, Maxime Vallée
INTRODUCTION: In the era of increased bacterial resistance, the main strategy is to reduce the prescription of antibiotics when possible. Nowadays, it is highly recommended to screen for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU), prior to urological surgery with potential mucosal breach or urine exposure. Screening and treating urinary colonization is a strategy widely adopted before radical and partial nephrectomy but without any evidence. Our main end point in this study is to analyze the relationship between preoperative urine culture and the risk of postoperative febrile urinary tract infection (UTI) or surgical-site infection (SSI) in partial or radical nephrectomy patients...
March 20, 2024: World Journal of Urology