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Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urological Surgery: Risk Factor or Not? Results from the National and Multicenter TOCUS Database.

Stessy KutchukianBastien Gondran-TellierAurélien DinhHumphrey RobinPierre BigotMarc FrançotStéphane de VergieJérôme RigaudMathilde ChapuisLaurent BrureauCamille JousseaumeOmar KarrayFares T KosseifiShahed BorojeniAurélien DescazeaudMarie ChicaudHarrison-Junior AsareMaxime GaullierBaptiste PoussotThibault TricardMichael BaboudjianÉric LechevallierPierre-Olivier DelpechElias AyoubHéloïse Héloïse DucoussoSimon BernardeauFranck BruyèreMaxime Vallée
Published in: The Journal of urology (2024)
Positive urine culture, including preoperative polymicrobial urine culture, prior to urological surgery was associated with postoperative infection. Additionally, patients experiencing infectious complications also had a higher incidence of other complications. The effectiveness of systematic preventive antibiotic therapy for a positive urine culture has not been conclusively established.
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