... is postoperative infection. It mainly includes febrile urinary tract infection (fUTI) or, what’s worse, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). Though the incidence of this complication remains low and varies from 3 to 5%, respectively [ 6 ], it could possibly lead to extended length of hospital stay...

...Tsutomu Anraku; Kenji Obara; Masayuki Tasaki; Yoshihiko Tomita Background: The management of febrile urinary tract infection (fUTI) in patients with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is crucial to prevent renal scarring. Continuous antibiotic prophylaxis (CAP) is the most widely used initial treatment...

... that it is necessary to evaluate the risk factors before urological procedures of the upper urinary tract and to offer a definite preventive methodology according to these risk factors for the establishment and update of guidelines. Upper urinary tract procedures Risk factors Febrile urinary tract infection...