EAU Guidelines for the Management of Urinary and Male Genital Tract Infections1 Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Working Group of the Health Care Office (HCO) of the European Association of Urology (EAU)

A short version of the UTI Guidelines elaborated by the Urinary Tract Infection Working Group of the Health Care Office of the European Association of Urology is presented. The topics include classification, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of uncomplicated UTI, UTI in children, UTI in diabetes mellitus, renal insufficiency, renal transplant recipients and immunosuppression, complicated UTI due to urological disorders, sepsis syndrome, urosepsis, urethritis, prostatitis, epididymitis, orchitis and principles of perioperative prophylaxis in urology. European Urology Copyright © 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel Adresses of authors Kurt G. Naber, MD, PhD, apl. Professor, Urologic Clinic, Hospital St. Elisabeth, Teaching Hospital of the Medical School of the Technical University of Munich. St. Elisabethstrasse 23, D–94315 Straubing, Germany Bo Bergman, MD, PhD, Assoc. Professor, Department of Urology, Karolinska Hospital, PO Box 60500, S–17176 Stockholm, Sweden Michael C. Bishop, MD, FRCP, FRCS, Professor, Consultant Urologist, Department of Urology, Nottingham City Hospital, Hucknell Road, Nottingham NG51PB, UK. Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen, MD, PhD, Professor, Telemark Central Hospital, N–3906, Porsgrunn, Norway Henry Botto, MD, PhD, Assoc. Professor, Service d’Urologie, Hôpital Foch, 40, rue Worth, BP 36, F–92151 Suresnes Cédex, France Bernard Lobel, MD, PhD, Professor, Service d’Urologie, Hôpital Pontchaillou, Rue Henri le Guilloux, F–35033 Rennes Cédex, France F. Jimenez-Cruz, MD, PhD, Head of Department of Urology, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Avenida de Campanar 21, E–46009 Valencia, Spain Francesco Paolo Selvaggi, MD, PhD, Professor, Cattedra di Urologia, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Regione Puglia, Azienda Ospedaliera, Ospedale Policlinico Consorziale, Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, I–70124 Bari, Italy 1 For more extensive information, consult the EAU Guidelines presented at the XVIth EAU Annual Congress, Geneva, Switzerland (ISBN 90–806179–3–9). Classification of Urinary and Male Genital Tract Infections For practical clinical reasons, urinary tract infections (UTIs) and male genital tract infections are classified according to entities with predominating clinical symptoms: (1) uncomplicated lower UTI (cystitis); (2) uncomplicated pyelonephritis; (3) complicated UTI with or without pyelonephritis; (4) urosepsis; (5) urethritis, and (6) prostatitis, epididymitis, orchitis.