PURPOSE We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of flexible ureteroscope for treating kidney stones and the risk factors for infectious complications following flexible ureteroscope (FURS) with a holmium laser. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the data of 227 patients with kidney stones who underwent flexible ureteroscope with a holmium laser at our hospital from January 2012 to September 2...

We studied whether or not prophylactic use of antibiotics following transurethral resection of prostate (TUR-P) was needed. The subjects were 152 patients preoperatively passing sterile urine who underwent TUR-P. They were divided into three groups: 35 with no use of antibiotics (no prophylaxis group), 70 with one day use of antibiotics (one day-prophylaxis group) and 47 with use of antibiotics...

OBJECTIVES:Accuracy of pyuria for urinary tract infection (UTI) varies with urine concentration. Our objective this study was to determine the optimal white blood cell (WBC) cutoff UTI in young children at different concentrations as measured by specific gravity.

It seems strange that while the number of cells in blood or cerebrospinal fluid is counted as accurately as possible, we are content with crude estimations for the cells in urine. Thus the usual method of measuring pyuria is to look at a drop of urine under a microscope and see how many cells there are within a field viewed by high power magnification (1/6). No attempt is made to measure the vo...

Although pyelonephritis is a common disease, it escapes clinical detection in an undesirably high proportion of patients. The present unsatisfactory diagnostic position would be much improved by widespread screening of patients by simple yet reasonably accurate methods. Bacterial counts by the pour-plate technique and estimates of the white cell excretion per hour or day, while undoubtedly of d...

Urinary tract infection is one of the most commonly encountered genitourinary disease in pediatric practice. Diagnosis and management of urinary tract infection is a matter of concern in hospital settings and at community level. This study tries to establish the relevance of urine dipstick analysis and microscopy in detecting UTI. In this study a control group and a study group of equal number ...

CONTEXT To increase detection, urine samples from young males could be opportunistically tested for Chlamydia trachomatis. OBJECTIVE To determine C. trachomatis prevalence in urine, optimum specimen and compare sensitivity/feasibility of routine use of different testing methods. DESIGN Group A, 'sterile' pyuria samples June 1998-January 1999, tested by enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and, if react...