Article
Urology & Nephrology
M. J. Schnabel, B. Rosenhammer, M. Steckermeier, H. M. Fritsche, M. Burger, P. J. Spachmann
Summary: The study found that routine antibiotic prophylaxis could be spared in patients with kidney stones and unremarkable preoperative urine culture, effectively reducing antibiotic usage. Patients with (partial) staghorn stones or infectious stone components are at higher risk of postoperative fever.
INTERNATIONAL UROLOGY AND NEPHROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Dominic LaBella, Alexandr Pinkhasov, Thomas Sanford, Oleg Shapiro, Scott Wiener
Summary: This pilot study demonstrates the potential utility of prone CT scans in preoperative planning for prone PCNL. Prone scans can help identify patients with longer or shorter tract lengths, and also reveal more potential organ interceptions, particularly for low BMI and women in the left upper pole.
JOURNAL OF ENDOUROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Colin C. Hubbard, Charlesnika T. Evans, Gregory S. Calip, Jifang Zhou, Susan A. Rowan, Katie J. Suda
Summary: This study analyzed the appropriateness of antibiotic prophylaxis in dental visits and found that unnecessary antibiotic prophylaxis was highly prevalent but decreased over time. Factors associated with unnecessary prophylaxis included age, sex, geographic region, rurality, type of antibiotic, and dental procedure. Antimicrobial stewardship strategies targeting dentists are needed.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Chadanfeng Yang, Hairong Wei, Hui Zhan, Ting Luan, Weiming Wan, Shunhui Yuan, Jian Chen
Summary: This study aimed to compare the effects of different preoperative antibiotic prophylaxis regimens on the incidence of postoperative sepsis. It was found that administering antibiotics for 3 days before surgery did not reduce the incidence of sepsis in patients with negative urine cultures undergoing PCNL. Body mass index and operating time were identified as independent risk factors for sepsis.
WORLD JOURNAL OF UROLOGY
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Abdulaziz A. Bakhsh, Husain Shabeeh, Francesco Mannocci, Sadia Ambreen Niazi
Summary: There are variations among different guidelines and recommendations from different countries and institutions regarding the necessity of prophylactic antibiotics for high-risk cardiac patients before dental treatments. While the UK's NICE and SDCEP do not recommend prophylactic antibiotics for the majority of high-risk cardiac patients undergoing routine dental treatments, the AHA, ESC, and KEC recommend the use of antibiotics in such cases.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Antonia Mondorf, Clara Amini, Christiana Graf, Florian Alexander Michael, Irina Blumenstein, Michael Jung, Mireen Friedrich-Rust, Daniel Hack, Silke M. Besier, Michael Hogardt, Volkhard A. J. Kempf, Stefan Zeuzem, Christoph Welsch, Joerg Bojunga
Summary: This study systematically investigates the risk factors for the development of wound infections after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement. The study found that 25% of patients developed wound infections after PEG tube insertion, and 6.5% experienced recurrent infections. Risk factors included nicotine abuse, previous ischemic stroke, and head and neck cancer.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Edoardo Trovato Battagliola, Rodolfo Javier Riveros Cabral, Gregorio Manco, Gianluca Puggioni, Claudio Brancato, Pietro Mangiantini, Floriana Testa, Mariaelena Malvasi, Giammarco Raponi, Paolo Turchetti, Fernanda Pacella, Elena Pacella
Summary: This study aimed to investigate whether topical antibiotic prophylaxis in patients scheduled for intravitreal injections achieves surface sterility in a greater proportion of subjects compared to povidone-iodine alone. The results showed that both chloramphenicol and netilmicin drops reduced the bacterial load on the conjunctiva, but after the application of povidone-iodine, there was a significant reduction in non-sterile swabs in all groups, and this reduction was comparable among all groups. Therefore, the authors concluded that povidone-iodine alone is sufficient and prior topical antibiotic prophylaxis is not indicated.
GRAEFES ARCHIVE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Urology & Nephrology
Peter Alken
Summary: The importance of puncture in percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL) in current urological literature is subjectively high but objectively low. Although puncture is considered a crucial part of PNL, there are no universally accepted definitions and standards measuring its quality, leading to a lack of systematic study on its impact on general PNL complications and surgeons' performance evaluation. Additionally, some basics of puncture are not well understood in urology, with other disciplines being more actively involved in the development of puncture techniques.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Martin H. Thornhill, Teresa B. Gibson, Frank Yoon, Mark J. Dayer, Bernard D. Prendergast, Peter B. Lockhart, Patrick T. O'Gara, Larry M. Baddour
Summary: This study found a significant temporal association between invasive dental procedures (IDPs), particularly extractions and oral-surgical procedures, and subsequent infective endocarditis (IE) in individuals at high-risk for IE. The use of antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) was associated with a significant reduction in IE incidence following these procedures.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Alan T. N. Tita, Waldemar A. Carlo, Elizabeth M. McClure, Musaku Mwenechanya, Elwyn Chomba, Jennifer J. Hemingway-Foday, Avinash Kavi, Mrityunjay C. Metgud, Shivaprasad S. Goudar, Richard Derman, Adrien Lokangaka, Antoinette Tshefu, Melissa Bauserman, Carl Bose, Poonam Shivkumar, Manju Waikar, Archana Patel, Patricia L. Hibberd, Paul Nyongesa, Fabian Esamai, Osayame A. Ekhaguere, Sherri Bucher, Saleem Jessani, Shiyam S. Tikmani, Sarah Saleem, Robert L. Goldenberg, Sk M. Billah, Ruth Lennox, Rashidul Haque, William Petri, Lester Figueroa, Manolo Mazariegos, Nancy F. Krebs, Janet L. Moore, Tracy L. Nolen, Marion Koso-Thomas
Summary: In women planning a vaginal delivery, a single oral dose of azithromycin significantly reduced the risk of maternal sepsis or death compared to placebo, but had little effect on newborn sepsis or death.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Arun Rai, Tareq Aro, Elizabeth Lynch, Christian Tabib, David Mikhail, Danielle Wang, Alan Abraham, David Hoenig, Arthur Smith, Zeph Okeke
Summary: A new technique for improving collecting system sterility during PCNL was presented in this study, showing initial safety and feasibility based on data from the first cohort of patients. Further research is needed to validate the effectiveness of this technique.
JOURNAL OF ENDOUROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Luke Griffiths, Tareq Aro, Patrick Samson, Samir Derisavifard, Jacob Gaines, Daniel Alaiev, Gregory Mullen, Arun Rai, Thomas Williams, Vinay Patel, Geoffrey Guanay, David Leavitt, Christopher Hartman, Arthur Smith, David Hoenig, Zeph Okeke
Summary: In patients with low infectious risk undergoing PCNL, a 24-hour protocol for antibiotic prophylaxis is not associated with increased risk of infection-related events compared to giving antibiotics until external catheters are removed.
JOURNAL OF ENDOUROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Hardik Patel, P. Ashwin Shekar, Dinesh Reddy, Anuj Dumra, K. S. Shivakumar
Summary: The study aimed to compare the outcomes of two different protocols of antibiotic prophylaxis in patients with positive urine culture undergoing PCNL. The results showed no difference in infectious complication rates between patients who received 1 week of sensitive antibiotics and those who received shorter duration of prophylaxis with sensitive antibiotics for 48 hours prior to procedure.
WORLD JOURNAL OF UROLOGY
(2023)
Review
Urology & Nephrology
Luca Antonelli, Kirby Sebro, Abdelilah Lahmar, Peter C. Black, Saum Ghodoussipour, Jill M. Hamilton-Reeves, Jay Shah, Jensen Bente Thoft, Seth Paul Lerner, Carlos Llorente, Ilaria Lucca, Mark A. Preston, Sarah P. Psutka, John P. Sfakianos, Susanne Vahr Lauridsen, Stephen B. Williams, James Catto, Hooman Djaladat, Wassim Kassouf, Katherine Loftus, Siamak Daneshmand, Christian D. Fankhauser
Summary: Patients undergoing radical cystectomy are at high risk of infectious complications, but there is wide variability in the use of antibiotics and ureteric stents, and duration of treatment. More studies and quality prospective trials are needed to address this issue.
EUROPEAN UROLOGY FOCUS
(2023)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Ravindra Sabnis, Mahesh R. Desai, Abhishek Singh
Summary: PCNL has evolved over time and can be performed in supine position in most situations, reducing pressure in the renal pelvis and allowing for natural clearance of fragments by gravity-directed flow of fluid. It also provides the surgeon with the opportunity to perform flexible ureteroscopy.
JOURNAL OF ENDOUROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Sadhna Verma, Saradwata Sarkar, Jason Young, Rajesh Venkataraman, Xu Yang, Anil Bhavsar, Nilesh Patil, James Donovan, Krishnanath Gaitonde
ABDOMINAL RADIOLOGY
(2016)
Editorial Material
Urology & Nephrology
Geoff Coughlin, Pankaj P. Dangle, Nilesh N. Patil, Kenneth J. Palmer, Jill Woolard, Cathy Jensen, Vipul Patel
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Nilesh Patil, Louis Krane, Khurram Javed, Todd Williams, Mahendra Bhandari, Mani Menon
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Kenneth J. Palmer, Gregory J. Lowe, Geoffrey D. Coughlin, Nilesh Patil, Vipul R. Patel
JOURNAL OF ENDOUROLOGY
(2008)
Article
Surgery
Rajesh Laungani, Nilesh Patil, Louis S. Krane, Ashok K. Hemal, Sahabuddin Raja, Mahendra Bhandari, Mani Menon
JOURNAL OF LAPAROENDOSCOPIC & ADVANCED SURGICAL TECHNIQUES
(2008)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Mark L. Gonzalgo, Nilesh Patil, Li-Ming Su, Vipul R. Patel
UROLOGIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA
(2008)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Nilesh N. Patil, Alexandre Mottrie, Bala Sundaram, Vipul R. Patel
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Abhinav Sidana, Selaiman Noori, Nilesh Patil
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF UROLOGY
(2014)
Review
Surgery
Vipul R. Patel, Nilesh N. Patil, Geoff Coughlin, Pankaj P. Dangle, Kenneth Palmer
JOURNAL OF ROBOTIC SURGERY
(2008)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Nilesh Patil, Prakash Shetty, Maulesh Dholakia, V. Srinivas
INDIAN JOURNAL OF UROLOGY
(2006)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
N Santoshi, K Gaitonde, N Patil, S Sagade
Article
Urology & Nephrology
N Santoshi, K Gaitonde, N Patil, A Goyal, V Srinivas
Article
Urology & Nephrology
K Gaitonde, A Goyal, S Nagaonkar, N Patil, DR Singh, V Srinivas
